San Jose police announce arrests of 2 men suspected in over 70 retail thefts
Police in San Jose announced Wednesday that two men have been arrested in connection with more than 70 recent retail thefts in which more than $75,000 in items were stolen.
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Police in San Jose announced Wednesday that two men have been arrested in connection with more than 70 recent retail thefts in which more than $75,000 in items were stolen.
Eighteen people were arrested by San Francisco police in anti-shoplifting operations this week in the city, according to police.
Two people suspected in a theft of a local business in Benicia on Sunday allegedly rammed two police cars as they tried to flee, the department said.
What was once billed as the shopping experience of the future is now a thing of the past at some stores in San Francisco, as they shut down their self-checkout lines in an attempt to thwart shoplifters.
What was once billed as the shopping experience of the future is now a thing of the past at some San Francisco stores as some stores remove their self-checkout lines. Betty Yu reports. (12/12/23)
The National Retail Federation retracted an earlier estimate of the losses stores suffer at the hands of criminal rings.
Police in San Francisco on Thursday announced a retail theft operation in the city's SoMa neighborhood that netted 17 arrests for shoplifting earlier this week.
A Daly City woman was arrested early Monday evening with a teen relative and her toddler child in her car after she fled from police following an alleged theft and assault at the Hillsdale Mall Macy's location.
Black Friday is the unofficial start to the shopping season. As such, some local police departments are stepping up their presence in their shopping districts.
An East Bay clerk who was set on fire by an alleged repeat shoplifter last month faces a long road to mental and physical recovery.
Lucky 7 Cigarettes is anything but. The smoke shop in Oakland's Little Saigon district has been targeted by burglars for years.
Katie Nielsen reports mixed reaction from Home Depot store customers over need for security guards following shooting of shoplifting suspect (8-8-2023)
Members of the community and law enforcement Wednesday honored slain security guard and aspiring police officer Blake Mohs, killed by a shoplifter at a Home Depot in Pleasanton in April. Betty Yu reports.
A Walgreens store on Geary Boulevard and 16th Ave. in San Francisco's Richmond District has been chaining up its freezers over the past two weeks. Store workers say shoplifters were clearing out the pizza and ice cream every single night. Read more here
It's no secret some San Francisco businesses have been hit hard by rampant theft and shoplifting. One grocery chain has installed gates inside some of their high-theft San Francisco stores where customers have to scan their receipts to exit.
Retail theft has become such a problem for Safeway, that the grocery store chain has added advanced security measures around the Bay Area. Da Lin reports. (7-14-23)
Police arrested 11 suspects and recovered 125 stolen items said to be worth more than $3,200 at a Milpitas mall on Thursday, officials said on social media.
A Hayward woman suspected of stealing from an Ulta cosmetics store in San Mateo last month was arrested after being spotted inside another Ulta store in Fremont.
Betty Yu reports on an employee at the downtown Old Navy store saying it is getting hit by shoplifters up to a dozen times a day (5-28-2023)
Organized retail crime is impacting Target and other retailers, and shoppers can be in "harm's way," CEO Brian Cornell said.
A shoplifter who made off with several thousand dollars in merchandise from a San Ramon Target store was arrested Tuesday.
A woman suspected of shoplifting at a Macy's department store in Palo Alto was arrested after smashing into a patrol car while trying to escape, police said Thursday.
A suspected shoplifter's mistake was leaving his stolen getaway car running in a no-parking zone at Alameda South Shore Center.
Two San Francisco residents were arrested Thursday on suspicion of retail thefts in Pacifica and South San Francisco, police said.
Investigators in Pittsburg found an arsenal of illegal guns and drugs at home of a suspected shoplifter.
