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Smile, You're On Body Camera: TJ Maxx To Equip Employees To Fight Shoplifting
To fight the recent rise in shoplifting and retail theft, shoppers could see store security employees wearing body-worn cameras to help catch thieves red-handed.
TJX, the parent company of TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Serria, HomeSense, and HomeGoods, said will begin equipping some employees with body-worn cameras similar to those worn by police, the Boston Globe reported. The company started testing the initiative last year.
The company operates nearly 3,400 stores nationwide.
A call to the Framingham, Massachusetts, headquarters of TJX for comment was not immediately r…
MD Fugitives Captured In Takedown Of $100K Target Store Theft Ring In VA: Sheriff
A trio of Maryland men accused of stealing $100,000 worth of merchandise across multiple towns were arrested in Virginia.
Stafford County Sheriff deputies responding to Target at Stafford Market Place around 11:45 a.m. Thursday, April 18 were met by a group of men hiding skin care items in a large bin, the sheriff's office said in a news release.
Among the men were Wilbur Sibert, 58, of Hyattsville, MD; Delbert Henry, 47, of Frederick, MD; and Canbrin Smith, 31, of Upper Marlboro, MD, police said. As deputies arrived, the trio fled out a fire exit with the stolen items.
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Philly Retail Theft Crew Busted With $15K In Merch From Chevy Chase Saks Fifth Ave
A Philadelphia-based retail theft crew was busted with $15,000 in luxury items swiped from Saks Fifth Avenue stores in Virginia and Maryland, authorities said.
Ericka Williams, 26, Amin Shamsid-Deen, 30, and Tunisia Amina Shamsid-Deen, 32, were found with Givenchy and Louis Vuitton bags and YSL perfume all totaling approximately $15,000, when police in Fairfax County stopped them on Thursday, July 13.
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The crew had just left the Saks Fifth Avenue store in Chevy Chase, MD, with the luxury items, and fled in a gold Chevrolet Impala with Pennsylvania tags, poli…
5 Maryland Thieves Crash Into Tractor-Trailer During Chase On I-83 In PA: Police
What started as a retail theft of perfume quickly escalated to a police pursuit on an interstate in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, September 7, authorities say.
Teona James, 25, Tymera James, 20, Destiny Thomas, 22, Joseph Wright, 31, and a 16-year-old teenage girl, were all involved in chase which began at the Ultra Beauty in Lower Paxton Township around 7 p.m., according to area police.
The police were dispatched to a report that two women "had just stolen a large amount of fragrances and other merchandise" from the store located at 5112 Jonestown Road, police say.
The women fled from …
'I Hangout In Dumpsters All The Time,' Says MD Ex-Con Wanted For PA Target Theft: Police
Marlo Harvard Jr. is no “Harvard man” as he chose to repeat a crime he previously was convicted of less than two years after he was released, according to police and court records.
Harvard Jr., originally of Baltimore, Maryland, came to the attention of police in York County, Pennsylvania falling multiple Walmart thefts, according to court documents.
The first indecent of $325 of stolen items in West Manchester Township happened in Jan. 2016, but it appears to have only come to light following a bizarre retail theft at a different Walmart on Monday, Feb. 1, 2016, according to reports at th…
