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 Fencing Operation - 3 Men stock
shelves with $50,000 of Rite Aid stolen loot
from warehouse Three men have been arrested for allegedly
stealing
$50,000 in merchandise from a Bucks County Rite Aid warehouse and using the
goods to stock an illegal store run from the basement of a Philadelphia
home.
The caller told investigators that a Rite Aid tractor-trailer had pulled
into a
darkened parking lot and that people were unloading items from the trailer
into
a pickup truck. Officers reportedly found Rite Aid storage totes in the
truck
bed and backseat containing about $2,000 worth of personal care merchandise,
cleaning supplies and paper products. Also taken into custody was
tractor-trailer driver Miguel Ortiz, 43, who allegedly admitted that he
agreed
to meet Agosto and sell him merchandise stolen from the Rite Aid
Distribution
Center on the unit block of Geoffrey Drive. Burgos, Agosto and Ortiz are
believed to be responsible for thefts from the Rite Aid warehouse totaling
$50,000, police said. (Source
philly.com)
6 member ORC gang busted for $25K - 65 gift cards - fraud in Greenville,
S.C. -
Two employees of Home Depot The Sheriff's Office said they
received a
complaint from the management of the Home Depot on South Pleasantburg Drive
that
they suspected two employees, Ashley Brown and Keisha Huff, of completing
fraudulent refunds at the store with merchandise that had never been
purchased
in order to obtain gift cards. (Source
wyff4.com)
Three ORC males hit Walmart store for
$12,000 in cell phones in Champaign
County, IL Authorities released surveillance images of the
suspects
who walked in, took the merchandise and left the store without paying. They
left
in a vehicle just described as a "minivan." The suspects are
described as black
men, ranging in age from late teens to early 30's. (Source
illinoishomepage.net)
String of Walgreens
robberies in Salt Lake City sparks probe
Three Walgreens
pharmacies in three counties were robbed this weekend and two of the heists
apparently were committed by different robbers. In Logan and Salt Lake City,
two
locations were robbed by men with similar descriptions, said Salt Lake
Police
Lt. Lance Vandongen. The Salt Lake Walgreens robbery happened at 9:30 p.m.
Saturday at 909 E. 2100 South. The man entered the store, passed a note to
the
clerk indicating a robbery and asked for Oxycontin. On Sunday at 10:38 a.m.,
a
black male wearing a gray hoodie sweatshirt, black ball cap and white
surgical
mask robbed the Logan Walgreens pharmacy. Later that afternoon, a robber
wearing
a Sons of Anarchy hoodie and black ball cap passed a note demanding
narcotics at
the Walgreens pharmarcy at 2600 S. U.S. 89 around 5 p.m. (Source
ksl.com)
'Telephone
man' robber strikes three more stores on Saturday in Las Vegas
Three
robberies Saturday evening at wireless phone stores across the valley may be
a
continuation of a string of robberies that Metro has dubbed "the
telephone man."
Metro watch commander Lt. Ken Romaine said the robberies occurred at stores
on
Craig Road in the northwest, on South Maryland Parkway and on East
Tropicana.
The first robbery in the string was Sept. 9. Police say the suspect enters
the
store and acts like a customer. He then pulls a handgun and demands
money.
(Source
mynews3.com)
Truck with 36,000 pounds of Crisco inside stolen in St.
Petersburg
St. Pete
Police are on the lookout for a tractor-trailer filled with Crisco sticks
that
was stolen from Coastal Towing on 118th Avenue North Sunday morning. Police
say
the tractor-trailer had approximately 36,000 lbs of Crisco sticks inside
that
was to be delivered to the Publix distribution center in Lakeland. In
addition
to the theft of the tractor-trailer, a number of boxes were opened and their
contents removed from a trailer at the Amazon distribution center in
Ruskin.
(Source
bradenton.com)
Phoenix Police seek 2 women for credit card
fraud
Police say they are looking
for two women who tried to use fraudulent credit cards at a Phoenix
pharmacy.
Shortly after 7:30 p.m. on July 20, a woman used a counterfeit credit card
containing a male victim's account information at the CVS Pharmacy. She
was
accompanied by another woman, who tried to make a purchase with a different
credit card. That card was declined. (Source
azfamily.com)
Robbers steal $35K in cigarettes, cash from Westbury, NY grocery
store
Police are searching for suspects in an overnight grocery store
robbery.
Approximately $35,000 in cigarettes, $2,500 in cigars and an undetermined
amount
of printed lottery tickets were stolen from Old Country Food Mart, police
said.
The grocery store, which is located on 962 Old Country Road in Westbury, was
closed and secured by a male employee at 12:30 a.m. When the same employee
returned at 7:15 a.m., he noticed the alarm was already off. Upon entering
the
store, the employee found one of the registers were opened and emptied of
its
cash. Money from the store’s New York State Lottery register and an ATM
machine
was also taken, police said. (Source
pix11.com)
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