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MCAO prosecuted 300 organized retail crime cases in 2024, up from 297 the year before and saw a 45% jump in referrals by local police, they said.

Retail crime in the UK has reached unprecedented levels, with soaring losses from theft and rising violence against workers, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has reported.

Find out about the felony theft charges filed against two suspects for baby formula theft from Target stores in Yolo and Sacramento County.

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 …