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2025 brings a new administration and a new Congress, with President Trump elected to his second term and the Republican party securing control of both…

TUKWILA, Wash. — Tukwila Police wants help in finding a person suspected of retail theft. On Jan. 21, around 7:30 p.m., a suspect entered an Old Navy store…

SAN FRANCISCO—The San Francisco Police Department announced on Friday, January 24 that several suspects were arrested in connection to an Organized Retail Theft Operation.

Michelle Mack, 54, a California mother of three, has been ordered to pay $3 million in restitution after pleading guilty to orchestrating an extensive retail theft ring targeting beauty stores like Ulta and Sephora. Mack’s crime ring, dubbed the “California Girls,” stole millions of dollars’ worth of beauty products, which …

A Bloomington family and several others have been charged with allegedly operating an organized retail crime network through multiple Monster Pawn locations across central Illinois, according to the Illinois Attorney General’s Office. The charges were filed against Monster Pawn’s owners—Edwin Pierce, 65; Kathleen Pierce, 58; and their son, Everson Pierce, …

Over the past four years there’s been a huge increase in retail theft in the United States, but that’s also about when a law enforcement trend allowing minimum or no punishment for “small,” non-violent shoplifters became popular.

NASHVILLE, TN — Orlexus Elliot, a 27-year-old woman with a long history of retail theft, is back in the headlines after being accused of stealing over $11,000 worth of merchandise from multiple Nashville retailers. Elliot, whose criminal record spans nearly a decade, has been charged with 16 counts of organized …

Police in California released a video of a trio of alleged shoplifters who were shocked to find out that the penalty for their crime had recently changed.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office continues to crack down on retail theft. The AG’s Office of Statewide Prosecution recently charged five members of a crime ring with organized retail theft.

Police found four theft suspects fleeing on a bus after stealing merchandise from Victoria’s Secret, according to the Daly City Police Department.