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Mervyn’s employees, friends charged in theft www.privateofficer.com

Mervyn’s employees, friends charged in theft http://www.privateofficer.com

Mesa AZ OCT 30 2008

By: Bryan Hill
NTL. ASSOC. PRIVATE OFFICERS
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Mesa police responded to a local department store after store security personnel caught six people Sunday stealing and some of them were store employees.
Police arrested several of them at the store but also said that they are looking for two others suspected of stealing merchandise from a retail store on multiple occasions.

According to reports, a 16-year-old Mervyn’s store employee assisted the suspects in the thefts by a scheme known in the retail industry as “slide-thru” or “under-ringing”.
Police say the subjects would bring numerous items to the register, some very high ticket items and the clerk would take between $15 and $25 for each transaction, and in one case, took no money at all.
Three adults and three juveniles were charged and more than $5,000 worth of merchandise was recovered, according to police.
Two suspects are reportedly still outstanding along with approximately $2,300 in merchandise.
Police did not release the names of those involved.
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Teenager charged with robbery after theft www.privateofficer.com

Teenager charged with robbery after theft http://www.privateofficer.com

Harlingen TX

An 18-year-old man that police arrested on charges of aggravated robbery was arraigned Thursday by a municipal court judge, who set his bond at $50,000, officials said
Harlingen resident Leroy Cortez was arrested after police said he and his juvenile brother took merchandise from Mervyn’s without paying and threatened a Mervyn’s security officer Monday, according to a police report.
The two brothers and another man went into the store at Valle Vista Mall and a security officer saw the boy hide a T-shirt in his shorts, the report states.
Cortez saw his brother conceal the shirt and didn’t attempt to stop him, the report states.
They then walked out of the store without paying and security officers confronted the group, according to the report.
The boy pulled a knife out of his right front pants pocket and turned on the security officers, and Cortez told the security guards to leave his brother alone, the police report states.
The juvenile put the knife inside his pocket when he saw police arrive, according to the report.
Police arrested the brothers and took them to the Harlingen jail, the report states.
While the juvenile was being transported to the Darrel B. Hester Juvenile Detention Center, he was able to move his cuffed hands toward the front of his body, and police and the boy were involved in a brief struggle when they took him out of the car, the report states.

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