CHP busts $715K retail theft ring, Pittsburg man arrested
More than $700,000 in stolen merchandise was recovered and an East Bay man was arrested in connection with a Bay Area retail theft ring. Andria Borba reports. (5-12-22)
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More than $700,000 in stolen merchandise was recovered and an East Bay man was arrested in connection with a Bay Area retail theft ring. Andria Borba reports. (5-12-22)
Officers arrested a 20-year-old woman suspected of shoplifting from a store in Palo Alto and found her to have thousands of dollars of additional stolen merchandise in her car, police said Monday.
After a huge retail crime spree in Union Square Friday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott on Saturday promised changes are coming to the area.
The Louis Vuitton store in San Francisco's Union Square was hit in a brazen smash-and-grab robbery Friday night.
Police arrested five suspects in an organized group theft from a clothing store in Corte Madera Wednesday after an alert witness called police to share the license plate of a getaway vehicle.
Police in Morgan Hill are asking for the public's help to find a trio accused of stealing multiple Apple products from a Walmart store on earlier this week.
The arrest of two Benicia shoplifting suspects resulted in one suspect also being charged with attempted murder in a case from another county, police said Wednesday.
A 75-year-old woman suffered life-threatening injuries when a shoplifter allegedly knocked her over while fleeing from a business in San Francisco's Outer Mission neighborhood last week, police said Tuesday.
Target has cut back operating hours at its stores in San Francisco because of rampant and increasingly brazen incidents of shoplifting at certain locations in the city.
A suspect in a shoplifting incident at a San Francisco Walgreens seen on a viral video had a series of charges leveled against him, including seven other shoplifting-related incidents, District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced Wednesday.
A 40-year-old man was arrested Saturday morning in connection with a string of retail thefts in recent days in San Francisco's Lower Haight and Mission districts.
A woman was arrested in Fremont last week after she allegedly used pepper spray on a Target security guard who tried to stop her from shoplifting, police said.
A San Francisco man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to several charges connected to his reported break-in days before at an auto body shop in Belmont, where he's believed to have stolen thousands of dollars of equipment.
Some stores in Oakland are paying upwards of $100 per hour for off-duty police officers to provide security after crime rates spiked in the past few months.
A man being pursued for suspected shoplifting Sunday night threatened a loss prevention officer by displaying a machete and possibly a handgun before fleeing on a San Francisco Muni bus, Daly City police said.
Most people arrested or cited in Contra Costa County for possession of a small amount of drugs and other non-violent misdemeanor infractions will no longer have charges filed against them under a new policy from the district attorney's office.
Police in Alameda are looking for a group of people responsible for brazen thefts involving thousands of dollars of retailers' merchandise, and have released surveillance images and video of some of the suspects.
A suspected shoplifter at an Antioch Lucky supermarket who died after a violent confrontation with a store worker had "underlying issues of drug use" which contributed to his death, according to police.
A 34-year-old man died after getting into a physical confrontation with a Lucky Supermarkets store employee Wednesday night in Antioch, according to police.
A man was charged by prosecutors Thursday on separate counts of carrying a loaded gun and carrying a loaded gun in public after being stopped by police for allegedly stealing from a Berkeley grocery store.
An Oakland man allegedly tried to avoid being arrested on suspicion of shoplifting by saying he was infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus, San Leandro police said.
Fourteen people were arrested in just one day as officers targeted snatch-and-grabs at Weberstown Mall in Stockton, police say.
Two Richmond residents were arrested Saturday afternoon by Petaluma police, who found a generator officers believe had been stolen a short time earlier from a San Rafael home improvement store.
Morgan Hill police said Thursday they're searching for a group of brazen beauty store thieves who, they say, have hit Ulta Beauty stores all over the Bay Area.
Police in Alameda are searching for two people suspected of exploding a firecracker inside a busy Safeway store on Thursday in order to steal a shopping cart loaded with groceries.
