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Samir Mourad, 42, of Clifton, NJ, was pronounced dead at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Wayne, NJ on Saturday, February 13th, after suffering an apparent heart attack in the midst of a struggle with a 15 year-0ld shoplifting suspect. Mourad, a loss prevention agent for the Shoprite Grocery on Hamburg Turnpike, collapsed after struggling with the young male subject, who allegedly shoplifted cough medicine from the store. A second juvenile involved escaped.

The 15 year-0ld subject was arrested and charged with robbery. The incident is under investigation, and video tape was recovered by police. According to witnesses, the juvenile struggled with Mourad outside, and again once inside the store. Mourad struggled with the shoplifter to keep him seated on a bench, and then collapsed after apparently having trouble breathing.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Samir Mourad and his family. Anybody want to comment on this situation?

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Jorge Severino, 53, and his son, Luis, 22, were charged with receiving stolen property over $250, pirating, possession for sale of unstamped cigarettes after police recovered over $50,000 worth of stolen merchandise that was being fenced out of Hancock Seafood Market at 260 Hancock Street and in an apartment upstairs at 262 Hancock St in Springfield, MA. Police recovered merchandise from CVS, Wal-Mart, Kohl’s, Ocean State Job Lot, Rite Aide, Cumberland Farms and Walgreens was recovered in the bust.

Police also discovered a large scale DVD pirating operation in the upstairs apartment, recovering over 300 pirated copies of new release DVD movies.

According to Masslive.com, CVS loss prevention worked with Springfield Police Detectives for almost a year to bust this group. More arrests are expected in the case.

I say, “Great Job” to the LP and Police involved in this case. It is my belief that this is much more common that what is reported in the news. Unfortunately, it is sometimes difficult to get police or corporate support for investigations of this scale.

Anybody have further details on this case? Want to discuss it? Have a similar story? Please add your comments below.

Source: Masslive.com

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Tiffany Lynn Boatwright allegedly took her 10-month-old daughter shoplifting on Wednesday at her local Walmart. According to police reports, she shoplifted over $300.00 worth of merchandise, including perfume, diapers, and some new undies. Then when she attempted to exit the store and was approached by store loss prevention, she put her baby at risk by fighting with the LP folks. Anybody want to nominate Tiffany for Mom of the year?

Link to the news story, complete with video, below:

Source: Ocala.com

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Okay, so they aren’t a legitimate drug company; in fact, they’re not a company at all, but a trio from South Haven, MI, were arrested after police detained a 40-year-old female for retail fraud. She led the police to her accomplices, who were waiting in their car, with their meth lab.

All three were arrested and charged with retail fraud. A 46-year-old male subject was also charged with operating a meth lab.

Now this is multi-tasking. Let’s go shoplifting, and oh, yeah! Let’s cook some meth while we’re at it. It’s a sad state of affairs when drug manufacturers have to subsidize by shoplifting

Comments always welcome

Source: WOODTV.com

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Natasha Caines, 33, of Queens, NY, was nabbed by cops in Braintree, MA, after she allegedly stole some Nautica apparel from Macy’s. She was observed by loss prevention agents trying to remove sensor tags from high end jackets. When she couldn’t get them off, she picked out the Nautica merchandise, that was not tagged, and then exited the store with it. She was observed placing the merchandise into a Mercedes. She then proceeded to walk away, but was detained by police.

Police found two watches in Caines’ purse that had apparently been shoplifted from nearby Gap. Upon searching the Mercedes, police recovered over $1,150.00 worth of merchandise, mostly clothing and jewelry, presumably stolen by Caines from area retailers, including Talbots, J. Crew, Aldo Accessories, Forever 21, and Arden B.

Of course, she was only charged with shoplifting from Macy’s, and for possession of stolen property for the watches. The stuff in the Mercedes was returned to the stores, but none of them pressed charges.

I wonder if she drives a Mercedes because she can afford it from all that shoplifting. I mean, $1,150.00 in one haul is a pretty good day. This is pure speculation, but I also wonder if she drove all the way there from NY just to shoplift, or was she just visiting and decided to go on a shoplifting spree while she was there?

Oh, I know. The economy made her do it

As always, your comments are welcome here.

Source: Wicked Local

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