A store full of police officers didn’t deter two men from stealing items from a southeast PortlandFred Meyer, officers said. Portland police said 20-year-old Shane Alexander and 30-year-old Jason Vantress took shoes, clothes, tools and blenders from the Johnson Creek Fred Meyer Store on Southeast 82nd Avenue on Wednesday morning during the seventh annual...
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Posts Tagged ‘ Shoplifting ’
Try shoplifting at a charity event with 60 cops…it’s not easy
Man with hot weiners in pants arrested
A man accused of hiding two pounds of hot dogs in his pants before leaving a grocery store sans paying faces a misdemeanor theft charge, according to a recently released arrest affidavit. A loss prevention worker at a Publix at South U.S. 1 and Prima Vista Boulevard last week told investigators she saw a...
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Blame the Devil
When the devil told Jeanne Jones to rob a Burlington County Walmart on Monday night, she should have questioned his motives or at least asked for bail money if she got caught. Jones, 22, of Palmyra, told police that the “devil got into her” when she fled a Cinnaminson Walmart on Monday, after walking...
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Daughter of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, busted in shoplift attempt
The Ivy League daughter of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani was busted Wednesday for shoplifting at an upper East Side beauty store, cops said. Harvard senior Caroline Giuliani was caught at about 3:30 p.m stealing $150 worth of cosmetics from Sephora on E. 86th St. and Lexington Ave., sources said. “She was caught red-handed. She...
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Man tries to hide tv in his pants
Police arrested a 27-year-old Canton man after they said he was caught hiding a TV in his pants at Wal-Mart. Gary M. Simpson put the 22-inch LCD TV under his shirt and in his pants, trying to conceal it, when an officer stopped him at 12:15 a.m. Saturday, an arrest report said. murphysboroamerican.com
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Woman stuffs sandwich down pants…grease stain tells it all
Deputies said that a drunken Spartanburg woman tried to steal a sandwich by stuffing it down her pants. According to an incident report, 39-year-old Lori Turner ordered two sandwiches and two small coffees at the McDonald’s restaurant on Hearon Circle on Sunday morning. The report said that when the cashier gave Turner the bag...
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Man with ‘hot smoked sausages’ in pants sent to slammer
A man accused of sticking “hot smoked sausages” down his pants at a Hess station got a trip to lockup for his alleged afternoon absconding, according to a recently released arrest affidavit. The man with the meat in his trousers — 62-year-old John Henry Brown — faces a misdemeanor petty theft charge following the...
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Beer thief with 153 arrests nabbed again…tells judge “I’ve been in this court more than you have.”
Paul Baldwin is a 49-year-old man from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. As of June, Baldwin has been arrested 154 times for arson, trespassing, receiving stolen property and theft, among others offenses. His most recent arrest was for stealing 48 beers. Only 12 days before Baldwin’s most recent arrest, he had just finished up a one...
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Television Reporter Says She Shoplifted for Story…Her Next Assignment, Bank Robbery
Police say a Connecticut television traffic reporter told authorities she was working on a freelance news story when she was arrested for shoplifting. Thirty-three-year-old Desiree Fontaine, a reporter for WTNH-TV in New Haven, was charged with misdemeanor larceny last Saturday at a Milford shopping mall. Police say she stole about $105 worth of merchandise...
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Man arrested after failed attempt to steal 6 chicken nuggets from Wendy’s restaurant
A 22-year-old homeless man faces a robbery charge for trying to steal six chicken nuggets from a northeast Dallas fast food restaurant Sunday night, according to police documents. Marquis Marsh (right) walked into a Wendy’s restaurant in the 6000 block of Greenville Avenue near East Lovers Lane about 9:30 p.m. He jumped over the...
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