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Butler PA
A Butler man is accused of shoplifting and a drug law violation.
Butler City Police arrested John Summerville, who’s 34, Tuesday morning.
Summerville allegedly tried to steal a package of DVD’s from Rite Aid, on Main Street.
Officers say they found prescription drugs and some marijuana during Summerville’s arrest.
Cincinnati OH
A Cincinnati man is under arrest, charged with shoplifting and hitting a police officer in the face as he tried to make his getaway.
54 year old Larry Whatley allegedly tried to walk out of the Kroger on Vine Street around 5 p.m. last night without paying for several items, including a Mr. Coffee coffeemaker, two long island iced teas, two pack of chicken legs and two packs of toothpicks.
An officer tried to stop Whatley and that’s when he allegedly hit the cop in the face with his elbow. The officer used a taser on Whatley.
Whatley is charged with theft, resisting arrest, and assault on a police officer.
Oakland Park IL
Shari Jones, 37, 14517 S. Pulaski Road, Midlothian, was charged with retail theft after she took $322 in perfume April 4 from Sephora in Orland Square Mall, police said. She was also arrested on five warrants for larceny from a building from Holland, Mich., and a warrant for theft from Pima County, Ariz., police said.
Saul Vazquez-Jiminez, 31, and his wife, Leticia Jiminez, 30, both of Joliet, were each charged with retail theft after they took $786 in merchandise April 4 from J.C. Penney in the Orland Square Mall, police said
South Boston VA.
An adult and two juveniles face charges of shoplifting at Wal-Mart.
South Boston Police were dispatched to the store at 2:38 p.m. Monday, where the store’s loss-prevention associate told them that two suspects were behind Hibbett’s Sports Store and a third was seen in the parking lot near Wendy’s. The merchandise was recovered in a trash box, according to a news release from the police department.
Jaurice Farrell, 18, of Babe Street in South Boston, and two juveniles have been charged with shoplifting. Police contacted the juveniles’ parents, and they will be charged with shoplifting.
Millville NJ
Michael Christian Thomas, 40, of Dock Street was charged Sunday with shoplifting at ShopRite. He also was charged with disorderly conduct and refusing to be fingerprinted. He was jailed on $5,000 bail.
Braintree MA
Pedro A. Alverez, 33, of Dorchester was arrested on the afternoon of April 11after loss prevention officers at the Macy’s store at the South Shore Plaza detained him for allegedly stealing over $1,000 worth of clothing and concealing the merchandise in his backpack, Deputy Police Chief Russell Jenkins told the Forum.
Loss prevention officers told Officer Paul Venuto that Alverez entered the fitting room several times and stuffed the clothing in his backpack.
“Alverez was followed to his car, where he was observed emptying his backpack and then returned to the store for more merchandise,” Jenkins said. “He allegedly attempted to bite one of the loss prevention officers in an effort to escape their custody. Merchandise was recovered from his backpack and vehicle.”
Alverez was charged with larceny over $250.
SPRING HILL FLA A shoplifting suspect led deputies on pursuit last Thursday after stuffing video game accessories in his shorts pockets.
A deputy was sent to the Target at Lakewood Plaza around 1 p.m. to assist loss prevention apprehend a suspected shoplifter. The suspect, William Moore, broke into a run when he was confronted at the door and jumped into his pickup truck, a report states.
Moore fled south on U.S. 19 with several cruisers behind him, before pulling over after about a mile at the intersection of Sealawn Drive, according to a report. Deputies say they recovered the stolen goods from Moore and drug paraphernalia from the pickup.
Moore, 31, was charged with possession of paraphernalia, fleeing to elude and felony shoplifting, because the stolen goods were worth more than $300.
COLUMBUS, Ohio—A shoplifting suspect rammed an undercover officer’s vehicle outside a popular department store and the officer opened fire, police said.
NBC 4 has been on the story since Tuesday night and had an update Wednesday morning.
CPD received a report of a shoplifter at Kohl’s on South Hamilton Road around 8:55 p.m. Tuesday night.
A plain-clothes CPD officer, who was later identified as Officer Bret Bodell, was nearby and responded, according to police.
CPD said Bodell observed a suspicious vehicle, set up surveillance and waited for uniformed officers to arrive.
Moments later, the officer saw the suspect, later identified as Homer Hendrix III, running from the store with merchandise, a police report said.
Hendrix jumped into a parked vehicle in the lot, and Bodell attempted to block the vehicle in, according to police.
Police said Hendrix put his vehicle into reverse and purposely rammed the officer’s vehicle repeatedly.
Bodell fired his service weapon and struck the suspect in the shoulder.
“It’s been proven. A vehicle can be used as a deadly weapon. It’s killed officers in the past, and if in fact, this vehicle was being used as a weapon and [the suspect] was ramming that car, then the officer will be justified,“ CPD Sgt. Rich Weiner said.
Hendrix was transported to Grant Medical Center in stable condition.
He was being charged with robbery and attempted felonious assault, according to the police report.
Bodell received minor injuries from the vehicle collision.
The shooting remained under investigation.
Bodell has been with CPD for 17 years and is currently assigned to the Strategic Response Bureau Enforcement Section
Savannah GA
Source: Savannahnow.com
Monique Willis charged with shoplifting, simple battery and criminal damage to property
Beach High School basketball star and University of South Carolina signee Monique Willis is being held in the Chatham County jail after allegedly trying to steal clothing at Oglethorpe Mall.
Willis, an 18-year-old senior, is facing charges of theft by shoplifting, simple battery and criminal damage to property.
Savannah-Chatham police say the 5-foot-8 guard and McDonald’s All-America Game nominee was shopping in Macy’s young men’s department Friday afternoon when a loss prevention officer spotted her switching price tags with a pair of shorts she already purchased.
Willis walked into another department of the store with the goods and told a cashier another employee forgot to remove a security tag, a police report stated.
Willis left the store and loss prevention officers gave chase. She ran into two security guards and smashed through a glass door before being nabbed by a metro police officer.
She was treated for minor injuries at Memorial University Medical Center and booked into the Chatham County jail on Saturday. Willis remained in custody Tuesday night, said Chatham County Sheriff’s Lt. Tommy Tillman.
Willis was selected to the Class AAAAA All-State second-team this season. She played in the Georgia Athletic Coaches Association’s North-South All-Star Game in Savannah last month.
Beach High School girls basketball head coach Ronald Booker declined to comment Tuesday on Willis’ arrest. He said he was out of town and did not have her phone number available.
A call to Willis’ cell phone ended in a recording that stated the number was not in service.
South Carolina women’s basketball head coach Dawn Staley, responding to an inquiry by the Savannah Morning News, said in a statement, “We are aware of the recent legal issues surrounding signee Monique Willis. We will let the judicial process run its course before making any decisions on her status as part of our program.”
Macy’s will prosecute Willis, according to the police report. The incident was videotaped by surveillance cameras. The stolen property was returned to stock.
Watertown NY
State Police arrested a Town of Watertown man yesterday for theft from Wal-Mart that was caught on security cameras.
Troopers arrested 20-year-old Timothy L. Gerrish Jr. of Floral Estates on one count of Petit Larceny. Gerrish is alleged to have stolen a Pre-paid Verizon cell phone valued at $53.75 from Wal-Mart on March 30th. Troopers stated Gerrish was arrested with the public’s assistance in identifying him from the store security pictures.
Gerrish was issued an appearance ticket returnable to the Town of Watertown Court
Watertown MA
On April 9 at 3:29 p.m. police responded to Filene’s Basement in the Arsenal Mall for a shoplifting report. A security officer had seen Bonita Bugembe, 21, of 15 Kenmar Drive 23 in Billerica, place about $365 worth of merchandise in her bag, and try to leave the store. Security approached Bugembe, and detained her. She was charged with shoplifting over $100 worth of merchandise.
MILLVILLE NJ
Police reported making several arrests at a local grocery store after security agents nabbed them for theft.
Police saif that Sergio Rodriguez-Cano, 30, of Cedar Street, was arrested Monday at ShopRite on the charge of shoplifting. He was released on his own recognizance.
Michael C. Thomas, 40, of Dock Street, was arrested Sunday at ShopRite on the charges of shoplifting and disorderly conduct. He was later charged with refusing to be fingerprinted, and was lodged in the county jail in lieu of $5,000 bail.
Thomas is accused of attempting to steal candy, lunchmeat, deodorant and canned goods from the North 2nd Street grocery store. A ShopRite security officer also believed Thomas was in possession of items he stole from the nearby Acme grocery store.
Thomas reportedly directed profanities at store security and police following his arrest.
BRAINTREE MA
A Dorchester man suspected of shoplifting at the Macy’s store in South Shore Plaza on Saturday afternoon tried to bite a loss prevention officer who was attempting to detain him, Braintree police said.
Loss prevention officers saw Pedro Alverez, 33, go into a fitting room and stuff merchandise into his backpack, according to police reports.
Police say he took merchandise worth more than $1,000. He was charged with larceny over $250.
Myrtle Beach SC
Three North Carolina men were charged in Myrtle Beach after they tried to steal candy and condoms from Kmart, according to a police report.
Ronald Sullivan, 20, of Stedman, N.C., Addison Philyaw, and Nathan Gates, both 17 of Fayetteville, N.C., were each charged with shoplifting after police were called at 8:15 p.m. Saturday to the store on Kings Highway, police said. Two juveniles who were with the men were not charged because store officials declined to prosecute them.
A loss prevention employee told police he saw the group enter the store and take several candy bars, a package of chewing gum and a box of condoms from the shelves and hide them in their clothing, according to the report. The stolen items, valued at $18.37, were returned to the store.
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Spokane security officers honored for capturing robbery suspect www.privateofficer.com
Two security officers at the Spokane Transit Authority Plaza in downtown Spokane chased down one of two armed-robbery suspects at the Plaza in February, tackling the man to the ground and finding a loaded .22-caliber revolver in his waistband.
STA security officer Chris Stein and Securitas security officer Chris Hamilton were honored on Thursday evening by the STA board for teaming up with Spokane police in taking the two armed suspects off the streets.
The chase occurred after the victim of an armed robbery the previous day – a regular bus rider – spotted the robbery suspects at the Plaza at 7:20 p.m. on Feb. 24. The Plaza was busy with passengers at the time, the two officers said.
The two unarmed security officers and two regular police officers approached the suspects after the robbery victim pointed them out.
The suspects were outside the Plaza and when the officers approached, one of them ran east and then north while the other headed west. Police pursued one while the security officers went after the other.
Stein described what happened in an interview Thursday. “We got about six, eight feet behind him. He starts reaching toward his waistband and slowing his pace.”
Stein said he grabbed the suspect and pulled him to the ground. When Stein patted him down, he found the loaded weapon.
Hamilton said, “I kind of looked at him and you could tell by the look on both of our faces we were kind of shocked.”
The arrest, Hamilton said, makes him feel good because there’s “one less person running around there with a gun.”
The suspect was identified as Drakarie D. Mills, 17, of Tacoma, who is being held on $100,000 bond on first-degree armed robbery and weapons charges in adult court.
The other suspect, who was allegedly armed with a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun, was arrested by police several blocks to the east.
He was identified as Timothy T.E. White, 17, of Spokane Valley. He was being held on $50,000 bond for first-degree robbery and weapons charges, also in adult court.
Both guns were stolen – one from Pierce County in 2005 and the other in a Spokane Valley burglary less than two weeks before the downtown robbery. One of the suspects told officers that they were affiliated with a gang. Both were in Spokane County Jail on Thursday.
The victim in the Feb. 23 robbery told police that he had gun stuck in his abdomen by one of the two robbers who got away with $65 cash in an incident that occurred in an alley next to the Holley Mason Building, 157 S. Howard St., while he was outside about 3 p.m. for a smoke break during his work shift.
STA Security Coordinator Clifford Schlienger said that Hamilton and Stein “were smart about” the way they handled the incident by waiting until the suspect brought his arms free from his waistband before closing in.
Police officers Shaney Redmon and Wayne Downing were at the scene and pursued the other suspect.
They lauded the security officers at the Plaza in a letter to STA. “They never hesitate in helping us regardless of the risk involved,” their letter said.
Officials said the arrest underlines the transit agency’s commitment to keeping the STA Plaza safe for bus riders. Stein and Hamilton are among 16 Securitas security officers and eight STA security officers who keep an eye on the crowds at the Plaza.
Redmon and Downing are assigned to the Plaza as part of a three-year-old funding partnership in which STA pays for one police officer and the city pays for the second.
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Toronto mall security officer shot www.privateofficer.com
The guard’s injuries were described as serious, but he was wearing body armour and was expected to recover.
Toronto Police Constable Tony Vella said the guard’s bulletproof vest saved his life.
“I think it’s awful,” said Sears customer Lisa Fargnoli, 42, who had come to Yorkdale to meet relatives for lunch.
Natalie Grabia, 21, said it was frightening the shooting could happen in the middle of the day in such a busy place.
“You just wouldn’t expect that,” she said.
The mall opened its doors in 1964 and is one of the largest in Canada. After a recent $60-million expansion it comprises more than 240 stores and services.
The incident began just before 1 p.m. when two young males, one armed with a handgun, got into an argument with a mall customer near a Tim Hortons outlet, just outside the southeast end of the sprawling complex.
The customer alerted mall security staff, and together a police officer and a security guard confronted the pair as they fled through the pedestrian overpass leading to Yorkdale subway station toward the nearby Yorkdale subway station.
“There was then a physical altercation between the security officer and one of the suspects,” Constable Vella said.
A handgun the teen was allegedly carrying then went off, hitting the guard.
As police from 32 Division flooded the scene, both suspects were arrested and one was subdued with pepper-spray.
The small-calibre handgun allegedly used to wound the guard was also seized.
The overpass section of the mall was cordoned off, then briefly reopened for pedestrians at around 3 p.m. before being closed off again as the investigation continued.
Maria Demasi, who works at a LensCrafters outlet, recounted hearing a loud, clear gunshot and seeing two more security guards running toward the overpass moments later.
An employee at a nearby hair salon, requesting anonymity, described seeing a man lying on the ground with two security guards kneeling over him, but was unsure whether it was the gunman or the victim.
Ms. Fargnoli, 42, was in the Sears store when she heard the mall’s alarm go off.
Although store staff told her there was no need to leave, she said she was nonetheless shocked to discover someone had been shot at the normally busy but peaceful landmark.
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4 Yr old girl dead after shooting self in head www.privateofficer.com
A 4-year-old Birmingham girl died Wednesday after police say she found a gun under a couch cushion and shot herself point-blank in the head.
Authorities identified the girl as Arnika Addison. Harris Homes neighborhood president Barbara Merchant, whose son dates Arnika’s mother, said she got the little girl ready for Easter festivities on Sunday.
“She wore yellow and white, with white lace socks and ribbons and bows in her hair,” a grief-stricken Merchant said. “She was a precious little girl.”
The girl’s mother, Candice Witt, was upstairs in the family’s apartment in the 600 block of Brussels Circle in the Harris Homes public housing community in eastern Birmingham getting ready for a job interview when the gun fired, Merchant said.
Witnesses reported seeing the mother emerge from the apartment’s back door about 1:45 p.m., cradling the girl in her arms, covered with blood and screaming for help. Several women outside led the mother and wounded child back into the apartment to wait for rescue workers.
The girl was taken to Children’s Hospital where she underwent surgery and later was pronounced dead.
Birmingham police said an investigation is under way.
“This situation is truly tragic for this family and community,” said Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper. “Our detectives are examining every aspect of this case to determine exactly what happened. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family as they try to cope with this child’s unfortunate death.”
Merchant said she saw the little girl earlier Wednesday.
“She asked me did I have any candy,” Merchant said. “She was active, very active, and a smart little girl. She was inquisitive, always asking questions.”
Merchant said Witt kept a gun for personal protection. She has two other children, a daughter and a son, both under the age of 6.
“She’s going to take it hard,” Merchant said. “We as neighbors will come together and do what we’ve got to do. Accidents will happen; that’s all I can say.”
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30 Yr old security guard murder re-investigated www.privateofficer.com
Gilbert Smith, a security guard at a Clover store, died after being shot in the head. Today marks the anniversary of the crime, which remains unsolved.
The cops crouched behind their patrol cars, gripping shotguns, rifles and the leashes of police dogs.
Inside the Clover discount department store in Falls, an unarmed security guard was dead. Gilbert Smith, 67, had just started working in security again after years of caring for his sick wife, who was still alive. He was shot in the back.
Burglars had knocked a hole through the store’s concrete wall. They took four TVs. Police scoured the building. Canines ran through nearby woods off West Trenton Avenue and Old Lincoln Highway.
That search began 30 years ago this morning. And yet, Falls police are confident they still can nab the killer.
“This is a homicide that we believe is solvable,” Detective Sgt. Nelson Whitney said this week. “There are people still in this area who have information, and we would like them to come forward.”
Anyone with information can call Whitney at 215-949-9116.
He declined to elaborate too much on what Falls police know about the murder because he doesn’t want to compromise the case.
But, he said, “The burglars could’ve left and gotten away with it without shooting Gilbert Smith. And [one of the burglars] certainly didn’t need to shoot him in the back.”
Smith and his wife, Mazie, came from Shamokin, an old coal mining town in Northumberland County. They ran a small grocery there after Smith served as a military policeman during World War II.
In 1952, the couple moved to Levittown. Over the next 25 years, Smith worked as a security guard at Kaiser Aircraft, York Pharmacy and Allied Chemical. He also worked at Pomeroy’s department store, where he once reported a store executive for walking out with a golf ball, his daughter Carol Harger told this newspaper a day after the murder.
In 1972, doctors gave Mazie Smith three months to live. They said she was dying of bone cancer. Chemotherapy and cobalt treatments ravaged her body. The doctors sent the 63-year-old woman home to Flower Lane in Levittown’s Farmbrook section.
Smith took over his wife’s care. Refusing to accept the grim prognosis, he turned to vitamins and good nutrition.
Seven years later, Mazie was still keeping house. And Smith, who had retired two years before, grew restless and took the job at Clover for extra money. Three weeks later, he was dead.
On the day he died, Smith followed the usual routine. He arrived at the store at 5:40 a.m., intentionally set off a silent alarm and called the Philadelphia headquarters to say things were in order. By 6:45 a.m., he let in the store’s six janitors.
About 7:10 a.m., one of those janitors was polishing a floor when he saw a heavy-set man dressed in overalls and wearing a piece of cloth over the bottom half of his face. The man was near the store’s customer service desk, standing next to Smith.
No confrontation followed. No words were spoken, the janitor told police. The burglar simply shot Smith once with a .38 caliber handgun. Smith dropped to the floor face down. A puddle of blood formed next to him.
A massive manhunt followed. The burglars escaped, possibly vanishing into one of two nearby apartment complexes where a getaway car would’ve blended in, Whitney said.
At the back of the building, police found a jagged rectangular hole about two cinderblocks wide and two cinderblocks tall.
The area behind the Clover building was wooded back then. And a tractor-trailer parked adjacent to the wall obscured the view of the spot where the burglars broke through.
They had chiseled into a small room rarely used by employees in Clover. The location led to speculation that the burglary was an inside job, although police never found evidence to support the theory, Whitney said.
Batteries and portable televisions were found moved inside the store. Four 13-inch screen televisions, taken out of their boxes to fit through the hole, were the only missing items. Their value was $260.
Police dogs caught a scent off the boxes. But their search was fruitless.
Neither the gun nor a sledgehammer or chisel were found. Police entered the serial numbers of the televisions into a crime database. Nothing came of it.
One of the case’s mysteries is why the burglar who shot Smith went to the front of the store. The security guard had been in the building for more than an hour. The hole was still unnoticed. The TVs already were gone. The escape didn’t have to include murder.
“The actor thought he was smarter than he was,” is Whitney’s explanation. “He was trying to be street smart and sly by breaking into the back of the building. He thought he had a plan but it didn’t go as anticipated. He panicked.”
The newspaper was unsuccessful in reaching Smith’s only child, Harger, who would be 65 this year, for comment on this story.
In 1999, shortly before the 20th anniversary of her father’s death, Harger spoke to this newspaper from her home in Georgia. She said her mother had lost hope before she died.
But Harger said she harbored some faith because of the advances in forensic science.
Ten years ago, the department took a second, deeper look. Several hundred man hours went into the investigation. And Whitney did indeed take evidence to the FBI for forensic tests. Behavioral science also was employed to develop a profile on the killer.
Whitney declined to say what the forensic tests or the profile revealed. But he’s no stranger to solving cold cases using DNA.
Whitney was part of a police team that solved the 1984 murder of 25-year-old Terry Brooks at a Falls fast food restaurant. Using DNA from a cigarette butt, they cracked the case 15 years after the killing.
Three decades after Smith’s murder, the Clover store has been replaced by a self-storage business. But in the back of the building, the neat rows of cinderblocks are interrupted by four awkwardly laid cinderblocks used to patch up the hole.
The marks of the burglars remain.
“The person who did this is on borrowed time,” Whitney said. “And we’re going to get him.”
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Shoplifters pepper spray security to escape www.privateofficer.com
Omaha Police are investigating an incident where suspected shoplifters were able to elude store security, after spraying two guards with a chemical agent.
It happened at the T.J. Maxx store at 122nd and Center, on Monday, April 13th.
According to the report, five young women were being watched by store security, who believed they were shoplifting merchandise from the store.
When officers approached the five, three immediately fled.
One of the remaining two took something from her purse and sprayed two of the store’s guards. Both, a 42-year old man and a 24-year old man felt a stinging or burning sensation in their eyes and noses.
During their distress all five women managed to make their getaway.
Authorities did recover a pair of socks possibly dropped by one of the women.
The store security guards were able to tell officers the women left in the area in a blue four-door Ford.
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Sears employee charged with assault on shoplifter www.privateofficer.com
Eric Sylvestre, 29, of 63 Boulder Drive in Londonderry, was arrested and charged with second-degree assault and criminal mischief for his alleged role in the apprehension of a shoplifter on Nov. 2.
Sylvestre, an employee in the receiving department of Sears Essentials, was called upon by loss-prevention associates to help pursue Jonathan Gregg, 19, of 307 Merrimack Street in Manchester.
According to police affidavits, Gregg had been spotted stuffing Xbox 360 games into his pants in the men’s room of the department store. When approached, police said, Gregg left the store and got into a black Honda Accord. Sylvestre and a loss-prevention associate followed.
When Gregg became aware Sears employees were contacting the police, he attempted to put his car in reverse and drive off, police said. At that moment, multiple witnesses saw Sylvestre punch through the driver’s side window of the Accord, then knock Gregg out by punching him in the face, according to police affidavits. When police arrived at the scene, Gregg was found unresponsive outside of his vehicle, his head in a small pool of his own blood. Gregg was taken by ambulance to Parkland Medical Center, where he was treated and released.
Police said they found two Xbox 360 games in Gregg’s car and the plastic wrapping for the games in the bathroom stall at Sears.
Sylvestre was charged with criminal mischief for breaking the window and second-degree assault for punching Gregg, said Lt. Scott Saunders of Lodnonderry police. In interviews following the encounter, police said, Sylvestre agreed his level of aggression exceeded the situation. He said he had never punched anyone before in his life and that he “let adrenaline take over and just reacted.”
Gregg was arrested and charged with shoplifting last weekend. Saunders said warrants for Gregg and Sylvestre were issued simultaneously, and both were arrested without incident.
Sylvestre was released on $3,000 personal recognizance bail and will appear in Derry District Court on Tuesday, May 5. Gregg, out on $2,000 bail himself, is scheduled to be arraigned in the same session at the courthouse.
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Carolina troopers write 18,000 tickets in 2 wks www.privateofficer.com
The patrol and local authorities last week wrapped up a two-week speed enforcement campaign across North Carolina that resulted in more than 38,000 citations being issued as of April 12. Local police wrote more than 19,000 tickets and troopers wrote more than 18,000.
Troopers also wrote 965 tickets last week during a campaign to target speeders in work zones along major highways.
Authorities say driving too fast is the leading cause of wrecks and highway deaths.
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Shoplifting incident leads to insurance fraud arrest www.privateofficer.com
Rochester police arrested Tiffany Parnell, 29, of Garson Avenue, Rochester, for filing a fraudulent insurance claim with Progressive Insurance Company for the purported loss of her 1998 Chevrolet Blazer.
William Fedrau, an investigator with the Insurance Department’s Frauds Bureau, said Parnell was arrested as part of an investigation begun Aug. 28 after she and an unnamed companion were identified as shoplifters by merchants at the Waterloo Outlet Mall in Seneca County. Parnell abandoned her vehicle in the mall’s parking lot after police were called by the merchants.
Several hours later, Parnell telephoned police to report that her vehicle had been stolen. She also filed an insurance claim. State police subsequently advised her that they had recovered her vehicle and asked her to come to the state police station at Waterloo. She was arrested for criminal possession of stolen property in connection with shoplifting when she arrived at the station the next day.
Rochester police and state police assisted in the investigation. Parnell’s companion was not charged in connection with the insurance fraud allegation. The shoplifting charge against Parnell is still pending. The insurance claim was never paid.
Parnell could be sentenced to up to three years in prison if she is convicted. She was released pending a hearing in Monroe County Court. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney William Gargan.
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