May 17, 2009 Police charge shoplifter with grand theft www.privateofficer.com
Lisa Ann Hayward had a first-appearance hearing Saturday on a felony charge of possession of an anti-shoplifting device. She is held in the Collier County jail on $2,500 bond.
Naples police arrested her Friday night after a manager for the Wet Seal store alerted them to two women possibly using booster bags in the mall.
Booster bags, foil-lined bags that block store sensors’ ability to detect surveillance tags, have become more difficult to detect as thieves also are creating lined “booster baby strollers,” complete with a real child, according to the National Retail Foundation.
The Foundation says organized retail crime nationally totals $15 billion to $30 billion in losses yearly and is growing in the poor economy as bands of thieves prowl stores, some legitimately buying items to throw store security off their tracks.
Friday night, Coastland Mall security called clothing stores to warn them and the manager of Victoria’s Secret alerted security they had a shopper with a possible Victoria’s Secret booster bag, according to Hayward’s arrest report.
The manager said that woman, who turned out to be Hayward, was with another who was pushing a baby carriage.
Police then realized there was a band of possible thieves walking the mall and stopped Hayward, who was carrying several bags. Reports say she was carrying items from Children’s Place and had no receipt, while she had another bag with a receipt. She also was carrying items from Gymboree children’s store without a receipt.
Other female suspects were stopped and checked, but had receipts.
Hayward contended another woman handed her the bag and deputies are checking surveillance video.
“I have four kids at home,” Hayward pleaded with deputies, according to her arrest report. “I wouldn’t have held the bags. I’m on probation.”
State prison records show she’s serving two years of probation after being sentenced last summer in Miami-Dade County on two felony grand theft charges and two for failing to return a rented vehicle. The sentence involves four separate crimes in 2001 and 2008.
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