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Smile, You're On Body Camera: TJ Maxx To Equip Employees To Fight Shoplifting Smile, You're On Body Camera: TJ Maxx To Equip Employees To Fight Shoplifting
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…

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by Josh Lanier
Police & Fire
Trio Nabbed With Thousands Worth Of Designer Clothes, Bags, Anti-Security Device: Lyndhurst PD Trio Nabbed With Thousands Worth Of Designer Clothes, Bags, Anti-Security Device: Lyndhurst PD
Trio Nabbed With Thousands Worth Of Designer Clothes, Bags, Anti-Security Device: Lyndhurst PD Three out-of-towners traveling with thousands of dollars worth of stolen designer clothing and purses were busted by Lyndhurst police after the driver made an illegal turn in a vehicle that was missing both a front license plate and an inspection sticker. Officer Michael Clifford was on patrol in the area of Schuyler and Page avenues when it happened. As Clifford approached the vehicle after stopping it, he saw the rear passenger "remove her jacket and place it over something on the seat next to her," Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. She, the driver and a second passenger all said they d…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Disguise Got Stones: Accused Member Of $10,000 Shoplifting Crew Fails To Fool Paramus PD Disguise Got Stones: Accused Member Of $10,000 Shoplifting Crew Fails To Fool Paramus PD
Disguise Got Stones: Accused Member Of $10,000 Shoplifting Crew Fails To Fool Paramus PD A member of an organized shoplifting crew that snatched more than $10,000 worth of merchandise from a Nordstrom in Paramus thought he could fool police by changing his clothes, authorities said. He ended up making it easy for police to bag him and his pals after they’d eluded a police dragnet more than three hours earlier, Paramus Chief Robert Guidetti said. Officers Matt Mulick and Joe Mastrofilipo had been flagged down by Nordstrom security after five people stole nearly 100 items from the Garden State Plaza store around 7:45 p.m. last Friday, Dec. 1, the chief said. Officers immediately…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Fugitive Tied To Retail Theft Ring Captured By Glen Rock PD Fugitive Tied To Retail Theft Ring Captured By Glen Rock PD
Fugitive Tied To Retail Theft Ring Captured By Glen Rock PD An investigation by Glen Rock police into an organized shoplifting ring led to the arrest of a fugitive from New York State, authorities said. Miata Mitchell, 26, of Poughkeepsie is part of a group that targeted various borough merchants, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Detective Sgt. James Calaski and Sgt. Greg Carter nabbed Mitchell in connection with a theft at Bottle King Liquors on Prospect Street shortly after 1 p.m. Aug. 7, the chief said. Mitchell was with a number of accomplices, he said. She was charged with shoplifting-related offenses, including being part of an organized re…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
57 Walmarts, Sam's Clubs Hit By Dad-Son Robbers Across NJ, PA: Authorities 57 Walmarts, Sam's Clubs Hit By Dad-Son Robbers Across NJ, PA: Authorities
57 Walmarts, Sam's Clubs Hit By Dad-Son Robbers Across NJ, PA: Authorities A Philadelphia man and his son are accused of carrying out a string of armed robberies across the mid-Atlantic states over a period of months, and the elder suspect is still at large, authorities say.  Jamaal Mitchell, 42, and his 24-year-old son Jahmir Mitchell are charged with robbery, retail theft, terroristic threats, and related counts, said Tilden Township police in a release on Wednesday, April 26.  In Berks County, the pair are suspects in the Oct. 16, 2022 robbery of the Tilden Walmart, authorities said. Investigators believe they stuffed over $900 worth of merchandise into two sh…

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by Mac Bullock
News
Plump Fragrance Thieves Flee Bergen Mall Ulta In U-Haul, Store's 3rd Big Theft In Two Months Plump Fragrance Thieves Flee Bergen Mall Ulta In U-Haul, Store's 3rd Big Theft In Two Months
Plump Fragrance Thieves Flee Bergen Mall Ulta In U-Haul, Store's 3rd Big Theft In Two Months Whether the fragrances sold at Ulta stores achieve their purpose is open to question, but one thing's for sure: They attract thieves. For the second time this month -- and the third in nine weeks -- thieves hit the Ulta Beauty Store on the Maywood side of Bergen Town Center. This time it was women, two of them, both black, heavyset and wearing hats and masks, Maywood Police Chief Terence Kenny said. The getaway car? A U-Haul truck. The brazen pair fled south on Route 17 after snatching $3,500 worth of fragrances shortly after 11:30 a.m. Saturday, the chief said. Responding officers who …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
NJ Native Bites Multiple Officers Over $6 Theft At PA Walmart: Police NJ Native Bites Multiple Officers Over $6 Theft At PA Walmart: Police
NJ Native Bites Multiple Officers Over $6 Theft At PA Walmart: Police A $6 shoplifting incident at a Pennsylvania Walmart that sent five police officers on a foot chase— two were bitten by the suspect, according to a police release on Tuesday, January 10. Rygo Alexander Kingsley, 23, currently of Lancaster, PA, and native to North Brunswick, NJ, was acting "suspicious" at the Walmart located at 2030 Fruitville Pike on Nov. 29, 2022, authorities say. Manheim Township police were called to the store as part of the "on-going investigation against him for retail theft," as stated in the release by the department. The person who called the police knew Kingsley an…

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by Jillian Pikora
News
Ex-Police Officer Who Faked Her Death In Ukraine Nabbed For Retail Theft, Records Show Ex-Police Officer Who Faked Her Death In Ukraine Nabbed For Retail Theft, Records Show
Ex-Police Officer Who Faked Her Death In Ukraine Nabbed For Retail Theft, Records Show A former Baltimore police officer who allegedly faked her death in Ukraine to avoid going to trial over false sex assault accusations toward a Pennsylvania officer, has been arrested yet again for retail theft,  authorities say. Oksana Olkesandrivna Brown, 47, of Dallastown, was previously sentenced to serve two years probation, 50 hours of community service, and was banned from the Shrewsbury Township Walmart after she was convicted of stealing $30 worth of merchandise in 2018, court records show. Brown claimed she was sexually assaulted by a Pennsylvania state trooper while the…

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by Jillian Pikora
News
NAILED: Police Capture Thieves Who Targeted Tri-State Ulta Beauty Stores NAILED: Police Capture Thieves Who Targeted Tri-State Ulta Beauty Stores
Nailed: Police Capture Thieves Who Targeted Tri-State Ulta Beauty Stores A reasoned hunch paid off when Maywood police who staked out Bergen Town Center captured four members of a tri-state retail theft ring moments after they’d swiped thousands of dollars worth of perfume from an Ulta store in Ramsey. The crew was believed responsible for a spree at Ulta stores in New Jersey, New Jersey and Connecticut -- including at the Wayne Town Center -- over the past several weeks, authorities said. The quartet had just struck at the Interstate Shopping Center off Route 17 on Thursday when Maywood Detective Sgt. William Phayre headed to the Ulta store at Bergen Town Cente…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
RECOGNIZE HER? Police Seek Help In $1,445 UGGs Mall Theft RECOGNIZE HER? Police Seek Help In $1,445 UGGs Mall Theft
Recognize HER? Police Seek Help In $1,445 UGGs Mall Theft Authorities sought the public's help Wednesday finding a woman who they said used a Glen Rock resident's ID and credit card to buy $1,445 worth of UGG boots at the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne. The woman in the photos (above and below) walked out with 10 pairs of boots from the Lord & Taylor store at the mall shortly before 8 p.m. Feb. 15, a Saturday, Glen Rock police said. She was described as 20 to 30 years old, with glasses and apparently braided hair. Surveillance images of the suspected thief.Glen Rock PD Anyone who knows or sees her is asked to contact Glen Rock Police Detective…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Pair Busted In Kay Jewelers, Nordstrom Burglary Spree Stretching From Paramus To Albany Pair Busted In Kay Jewelers, Nordstrom Burglary Spree Stretching From Paramus To Albany
Pair Busted In Kay Jewelers, Nordstrom Burglary Spree Stretching From Paramus To Albany Two Brooklyn men were captured and charged with four Kay Jewelers burglaries and one at Nordstrom in Paramus that netted more than $250,000 in valuables, ending a nine-month spree that authorities said stretched from Central Jersey to Albany. Paramus and NYPD detectives teamed up to nab Gerald Williams, 45, and Tony Newton, 56, ending a spree that they said began in January. The pair cut through the front security gate of the Kay Jewelers at the Garden State Plaza after closing time on Jan. 13 and ransacked the display cases, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The lead investigator, boro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Marilyn Manson Concert Pocketbook Thief Charged In Wayne Trader Joe’s Theft Marilyn Manson Concert Pocketbook Thief Charged In Wayne Trader Joe’s Theft
Marilyn Manson Concert Pocketbook Thief Charged In Wayne Trader Joe’s Theft A local man whose criminal record includes snatching a woman’s pocketbook at a Marilyn Manson concert pulled up to the Trader Joe’s in Wayne, loaded his car with plants and flowers and took off, township police said. Store employees got the plate number, though. A Wayne dispatcher directed Officers Cory Deak and Bruce Conklin to 39-year-old Matthew Powell’s home, where they found him, his 2000 Chevy Prizm and nearly $100 worth of stolen items, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. The perishable merchandise was returned to the Trader Joe’s on Hamburg Turnpike. Powell, meanwhile, was proce…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Witnesses Point Wayne Police To Pair In Snatch-And-Grab Fragrance Theft Witnesses Point Wayne Police To Pair In Snatch-And-Grab Fragrance Theft
Witnesses Point Wayne Police To Pair In Snatch-And-Grab Fragrance Theft WAYNE, N.J. -- Thanks to witnesses, Wayne police snagged a pair of snatch-and-grab thieves who fled a local store with nearly two dozen bottles of perfume, authorities said. Several witnesses to the Bath and Body Works theft at the Preakness Shopping Center snapped cellphone shots of the suspects and the getaway car, a Ford Escape that township police stopped on Alpine Drive, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Strewn across the back seat was the more than $300 of stolen mist fragrance bottles, along with a crack pipe, he said. Police arrested the driver, Ciriaco “Kenny” Lombardo, 49,…

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by Jerry DeMarco