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Roma Gypsy Crew hits Toronto retailers again for
over $700,000 with EAS jammers - The actual
story began back in 2011 and now another crew
gets busted in the GTA The Canadian Border
Services Agency is asleep at the wheel allowing
more than 400 alleged Roma gypsies - many of
whom have extensive criminal records - into the
country and specifically the GTA, critics say.
Last September 2012, the Durham Regional Police
Service confirmed they had arrested 34 people
Roma Gyspy's and laid 263 charges in the largest
investigation of its kind in the region. And
even in the fall of 2011, when police noticed
that people were committing distraction-style
thefts and fraud and started Project Mansfield.
Police busted one Roma fraud crew, but they say
there are a least six other crews stealing
millions from stores and vulnerable people. The
Roma involved in Project Mansfield collected $2
million from support programs since January on
2012 and police seized $85,000 in stolen
merchandise last fall. They have also identified
over $1 million in suspicious wire transactions
overseas last year as well. And in January of
this year, retail ORC teams started an
 investigation
and this past May busted another Roma grew
hitting at least 6 stores of one retailer alone
and various other retailers as well, for over
$700,000. The police arrested the crew at a
traffic stop. The ORC team found a radio
frequency jammer, pictured below, that was used
to jam the EAS pedestals when they were exiting
stores so they wouldn't sound off. The female
suspects of the crew used "booster skirts" to
conceal merchandise. The pair is part of a
growing number of Roma gypsies committing
similar styled thefts all over the country.
Editors Note: We'd like to thank the LP
executives, Andrew G specifically, who submitted
this to us and applaud their teams efforts. Keep
up the good work! (Source
sunnewsnetwork.ca)
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more smash-and-grabs at GTA stores - $100K in
merchandise stolen from Yorkville Prada store
Toronto is getting hammered with smash and grabs.
There's been three in the last few days. Toronto-area
police have responded to three late-night smash-and-grab
thefts at retail stores over past 24 hours, with
vehicles used as a battering ram in two of the thefts.
At about 1:15 a.m. Wednesday, Peel Police responded to a
smash-and-grab at Riders Choice motorcycle shop, located
at the corner of Dixie Road and the Queensway. About 90
minutes later, Toronto police responded to a similar
theft attempt at the Prada store on Bloor Street in
Yorkville. There thieves broke the front glass door and
made off with merchandise, including a number of
handbags worth $2,000 each. Store staff estimate the
total value of stolen merchandise to be about $100,000.
(Source
cbc.ca) (Source
ctvnews.ca)
Truck
smashes into mall in botched robbery at Sherwood Gardens
Would-be thieves drove off empty-handed in a botched
smash-and-grab at Sherway Gardens that left the popular
mall with "hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage”.
The wannabe bandits smashed a stolen pickup truck
through the front glass doors on the exterior of the
mall adjacent to a Sporting Life store just after
midnight Tuesday. The suspects ditched the truck and
fled in a waiting vehicle. Police have not said how much
merchandise was taken. (Source
ctvnews.ca)
 Saskatoon Police arrest two suspected of credit fraud
and Pin Pad thefts.
Two Vancouver men face dozens of charges in connection
with fraud and the theft of pin pads. The men, ages 33
and 54, were arrested in August and police have so far
laid a total of 142 charges, 71 each against each of the
men. The face numerous counts of forged credit cards,
theft of credit cards and possessing identity documents
in addition to one count each for having equipment used
in the forging of credit cards. The men were arrested
Aug. 22 when a Saskatoon police officer recognized a van
that matched a description issued in July by the Brandon
Police Service in connection with stolen pin pads in
Manitoba. A number of pin pad machines and credit cards
were discovered in the van, all of them believed to have
been stolen. Saskatoon police are working with police
from across Canada -- including Regina, Brandon and
Winnipeg -- and say more charges are expected.
(Source
ctvnews.ca)
Calgary Police arrest a two men accused of operating a
high tech identity fraud ring. The two suspect
face over 100 charges for manufacturing fake checks,
birth certificates and driver’s licenses. Police believe
they are the best counterfeit documents they have ever
seen. The documents were being sold on line.
(Source
ctvnews.ca)
Canada Post launching same-day delivery for online
orders in Toronto
Four major retail brands and Canada Post are launching a
same-day delivery service for online orders in the
Toronto area. The Delivered Tonight e-commerce service
is a pilot project with Best Buy, Future Shop, Indigo
and Wal-Mart. Just like in the States Canada is moving
towards the same retail models as well. With Amazon
announcing they'll sell toys this holiday season online
and outlet shopping centers popping up, Canada is
beginning to look more and more like the states.
(Source
financialpost.com)
 Canada's
book seller Indigo (Chapters) introduces their first
store within a store format - feeling the same pain
their counterparts in the States are feeling, they're
betting the bank on new "Tech" shop Indigo
Books & Music Inc. has rolled out the first phase of its
store-within-store concept called Indigo Tech that
carries personal technology products from Apple and
other lifestyle-focused brands. After opening a pilot
location in Toronto earlier this summer, Indigo
introduced the new concept – which expands its tech
offering beyond small booths and kiosks to a branded
department – to eleven of its stores in the lastfew
weeks. The retailer hopes to have Indigo Tech within
40-44 of its stores by the end of the year. In addition
to Apple products such as the iPod Touch, iPad, iPad
Mini and Apple TV, Indigo Tech offers health and
wellness gadgets like Fitbit Zip, wireless speakers,
headphones and even baby monitors. Indigo operates under
several banners including Indigo Books, Chapters, the
World’s Biggest Bookstore and Coles. Editor's Note: Well
in this new world either you reinvent or you parish.
(Source
marketingmag.ca)
 Hells
Angels biker gang opens retail store in Toronto
The Hells Angels have opened a retail store in Toronto’s
east end, blocks away from the site of their downtown
clubhouse that was smashed by police nearly six years ago.
The walk-in store, located in the Leslieville neighborhood,
sells a range of merchandise including baseball caps, men's
T-shirts and even women’s yoga pants. The merchandise, which
can also be ordered online, features slogans such as "When
in doubt, knock’em out!." In April 2007, Toronto police
smashed through the brick wall of the biker gang’s
clubhouse. The raid was publicly orchestrated to send a
"clear" message to individuals who choose a criminal
lifestyle, Toronto police said at the time.
(Source
ctvnews.ca) |
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