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2012 Archives
ORC Ring-leader gets 5 years in prison and ordered to pay
$170,000 in restitution.
42 year-old Renton,
WA., man who led an ORC ring of as many as 22 people hitting
home improvement stores - Lowe's, Home Depot, and Wal-Mart
was sentenced to 5 yr.'s in prison for shoplifting and
forged documents to steal "significant" sums from the
retailers. For example, members of the ring would steal
items, such as expensive faucets, from Lowe’s stores by
placing them in large boxes for sinks or toilets. The
conspirators would leave the store paying only the lower
price for the sink or toilet. In the ensuing weeks, members
of the conspiracy would return the stolen items to different
Lowe’s stores throughout Arizona, Oregon, California,
Oklahoma and Washington in exchange for gift cards. Members
of the conspiracy then sold the gift cards for cash. The
ring caused more than $100,000 in losses to Lowe's. In order
to return Lowe’s items without a receipt, the conspirators
used altered drivers licenses – changing one letter in the
name and license number – so that the stores fraud detection
systems would not be triggered with the multiple returns.
(Source
privateofficerbreakingnews.com)
Very High Tech Gang responsible for seven jewelry store
robberies in Australia.
This is not your
typical 'smash and grab' gang, actually more like a
Hollywood movie. Surveillance, planning, GPS systems, and
computers have police wondering who is behind these well
orchestrated thefts. (source
jewellermagazine.com)
Houston Police have released a new video of the smash and
grab robbery at Ben Bridge Jewelers in the Memorial City
Mall.
The store had lost $225,000 in watches
and jewelry, no one was injured.
(source
myfoxhouston.com)
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