Shoplifters use crowbar to beat store security agent www.privateofficer.com

Shoplifters use crowbar to beat store security agent http://www.privateofficer.com

LOUISVILLE, Ky. OCT 28 2008

BY: Rick McCann
NTL. ASSOC. PRIVATE OFFICERS
www.privateofficer.com- A shoplifting apprehension attempt turned violent when a store security agent was attacked by three people and later beaten with a crowbar.
Police said the incident happened Monday night at the Meijer store on Preston Highway.
Police said the loss prevention agent watched as a trio stole shoes and when he tried to stop the three people from stealing the shoes, he was attacked and seriously injured.
“The security officer had one of the gentlemen in a hold, and the female came up behind him and tried to scratch his eyes out and left scratches and stuff across his cheek,” said Metro Police Officer Kori Thurman. “The person that was in the hold also bit the security officer on the arm and hand several times.”
Police said the suspects got away, but came back to the store, found the store security officer and went after him again with a baseball bat and a crowbar.
Christopher Miller, Kent Thompson and Jennifer Powell fled the store a second time, but were later taken into custody in Bullitt County, where police said Powell is wanted on for allegedly conning an elderly man out of thousands of dollars and giving him a pill that almost killed him.The store security agent, who police did not identify was treated for numerous non-life threatening injuries and released from a local hospital.

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