Nashville,
TN Kroger Co ORC team and Nashville
PD dismantle ORC fencing operation
– Over a 3-month period, members of The Kroger
Co. ORC team in Nashville, Tennessee, and Nashville detectives conducted
numerous reverse buys at 4 local markets within the City of Nashville.
The 4 markets were identified as fencing operations and were linked to
each other. The 4 search warrants were executed by 51 members of the
Nashville Police Department, the prosecutor's office and Kroger ORC
Investigators. The search warrants yielded in excess of $1 million in
product, 8 arrests and the seizure of 8 vehicles, guns, cash and
narcotics. Several of the targets have already agreed to the forfeiture
of the vehicles, cash and real estate to law enforcement.
(Source
newschannel15.com)
Fencing Operation Locations
Cleveland ORC Ring identified
A retail theft ring operating out of Cleveland is believed to be responsible
for stealing more than $45,000 since January from Marshalls stores in
Western Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. More than $22,000 has been
taken from Marshalls stores in Cranberry, Monroeville, Robinson, Ross and
near Aspinwall according to information in a criminal complaint filed by the
State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation's Western Pennsylvania Task
Force. The task force filed charges on Thursday against Santina Green,
also known as Erica Ray, 37, of Bedford, Ohio, and Michael Gross, 37, of
Cleveland, state police said. Green and Gross will be arraigned before
District Judge David Kovach in Cranberry. A criminal complaint identifies
11 other people as members of the ring and state police said more arrests
will be made. All those identified are residents of the Cleveland
area. The complaint states that members of the group would place lower
price tags on items, including rugs and styling irons, at one Marshalls
store and make a purchase. They would then replace the original,
higher price tag and go to another Marshalls store and return the item for
the original cost, the complaint states. Green is believed responsible for
obtaining 38 refunds for nearly $7,000, including $3,400 in Pennsylvania,
the complaint states. Gross is accused of receiving three refunds for
nearly $500. (Source
pittsburghlive.com)
