All posts tagged "Shoplifting"

The deadly confrontation betweena chronic shoplifter and a CVS store clerk shocked the city — but those who work in retail say dealing with an epidemic of shoplifting has become a troubling part of their working days. New York City has been hit with a post-COVID-19 spike in shoplifting, with petty larcenies jumping 44% between 2021 and 2022. Employees at beauty stores, drug stores and supermarkets told The New York Daily News they grapple with confronting people taking items from their stores. Some, after seeing people try to sneak out with stolen goods in hiking backpacks, grocery carts, plas......

NEW YORK — A fight between a CVS worker and a man attempting to shoplift from a Midtown branch of the chain turned deadly Thursday when the employee knifed the thief in the torso, cops and police sources said. Employee Scotty Enoe and a man allegedly trying to steal goods got into an argument near the door of the CVS pharmacy on Broadway near West 49th Street, according to authorities. “It was a homeless guy. He had a big problem with the security guard with the CVS,” street vendor Modo Gui, who witnessed the melee from across the street, told the New York Daily News. The thief punched Enoe, a......

Investigators broke up a San Francisco Bay Area retail theft ring connected to at least $200,000 in stolen merchandise, California Highway Patrol officers said. Investigators recovered 15,000 items stolen from CVS, Victoria's Secret, Target, GAP, TJX, LensCrafters, Nordstrom, Walgreens, Safeway and other stores, a CHP news release said. They also arrested two people, including one who arrived at a San Francisco storage unit while investigators were searching it for stolen goods, the release said. An earlier arrest initially led investigators with a CHP task force on organized retail crime to a......