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Providence RI Sept 25 2008
Kyle T. Greene
Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers
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A Providence man is being held at the Adult Correctional Institutions until Oct. 10 after a state trooper noticed a foil-lined tote in his vehicle and found 85 music CDs from a Borders bookstore in Connecticut.
Trooper Christopher J. Schram pulled over a northbound car that was swerving into the low-speed lane of Route 95 in Exeter at 10:35 a.m. on Sept. 16, said state police Lt. Eric LaRiviere, patrol commander for the Hope Valley barracks.
The car was unregistered and the driver, Michael Dwyer, 44, of Spruce Street in Providence, did not have a valid license, LaRiviere said. The vehicle was towed to the Hope Valley barracks and searched.
A bag lined with foil secured with duct tape is a shoplifting accessory known as a booster bag, LaRiviere said. Thieves use them to hide magnetically tagged merchandise from detectors at the exit. “It does not always work,” LaRiviere said. “A lot of the stores today have devices that prevent this from working.”
The vehicle also contained 85 new CDs in a wide range of music styles, LaRiviere said, with store tags that indicated they were from a Borders bookstore in Waterford, Conn.
LaRiviere said a Borders loss prevention manager arrived at the Hope Valley barracks, recognized Dwyer and identified the CDs as merchandise stolen from the Waterford store.
Mary Davis, a corporate affairs manager at Borders, said company policy doesn’t allow her to release any details except to say “We are cooperating with authorities.”
Dwyer was charged with receiving stolen goods/shoplifting goods worth more than $500, a felony; the use of shoplifting paraphernalia and being a habitual shoplifter.
Judge William C. Clifton in District Court, Wakefield, set bail at $2,000 cash or property worth $20,000, which Dwyer could not post.
“Our position on this defendant,” said Michael Healey, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office, “is that he clearly has an extensive record, going back to his first shoplifting conviction in 1983.”
In this decade, Dwyer had felony shoplifting convictions resulting from arrests in East Providence in 2002 and Lincoln in 2003, Healey said. He received a 5-year suspended sentence in the Lincoln case, Healy said, and last week’s arrest put him in violation of probation.
“We are seeking the full five years that he owes from that 2003 case,” Healy said, “and then we will seek consecutive time on the new charges.”
If convicted, Healy said, Dwyer could get a maximum of 10 years on the latest felony shoplifting charge, 5 years maximum on the use of shoplifting paraphernalia and six months added for habitual shoplifting.
A Providence man is being held at the Adult Correctional Institutions until Oct. 10 after a state trooper noticed a foil-lined tote in his vehicle and found 85 music CDs from a Borders bookstore in Connecticut.
Trooper Christopher J. Schram pulled over a northbound car that was swerving into the low-speed lane of Route 95 in Exeter at 10:35 a.m. on Sept. 16, said state police Lt. Eric LaRiviere, patrol commander for the Hope Valley barracks.
The car was unregistered and the driver, Michael Dwyer, 44, of Spruce Street in Providence, did not have a valid license, LaRiviere said. The vehicle was towed to the Hope Valley barracks and searched.
A bag lined with foil secured with duct tape is a shoplifting accessory known as a booster bag, LaRiviere said. Thieves use them to hide magnetically tagged merchandise from detectors at the exit. “It does not always work,” LaRiviere said. “A lot of the stores today have devices that prevent this from working.”
The vehicle also contained 85 new CDs in a wide range of music styles, LaRiviere said, with store tags that indicated they were from a Borders bookstore in Waterford, Conn.
LaRiviere said a Borders loss prevention manager arrived at the Hope Valley barracks, recognized Dwyer and identified the CDs as merchandise stolen from the Waterford store.
Mary Davis, a corporate affairs manager at Borders, said company policy doesn’t allow her to release any details except to say “We are cooperating with authorities.”
Dwyer was charged with receiving stolen goods/shoplifting goods worth more than $500, a felony; the use of shoplifting paraphernalia and being a habitual shoplifter.
Judge William C. Clifton in District Court, Wakefield, set bail at $2,000 cash or property worth $20,000, which Dwyer could not post.
“Our position on this defendant,” said Michael Healey, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office, “is that he clearly has an extensive record, going back to his first shoplifting conviction in 1983.”
In this decade, Dwyer had felony shoplifting convictions resulting from arrests in East Providence in 2002 and Lincoln in 2003, Healey said. He received a 5-year suspended sentence in the Lincoln case, Healy said, and last week’s arrest put him in violation of probation.
“We are seeking the full five years that he owes from that 2003 case,” Healy said, “and then we will seek consecutive time on the new charges.”
If convicted, Healy said, Dwyer could get a maximum of 10 years on the latest felony shoplifting charge, 5 years maximum on the use of shoplifting paraphernalia and six months added for habitual shoplifting.
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