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Loss Prevention Agent Dead After Struggle With Shoplifter
2010-02-15 15:01:00
Samir Mourad, 42, of Clifton, NJ, was pronounced dead at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Wayne, NJ on Saturday, February 13th, after suffering an apparent heart attack in the midst of a struggle with a 15 year-0ld shoplifting suspect. Mourad, a loss prevention agent for the Shoprite Grocery on Hamburg Turnpike, collapsed after struggling with the ...
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Father-Son ORC Fencing Team Busted In Springfield, MA
2010-02-05 01:03:00
Jorge Severino, 53, and his son, Luis, 22, were charged with receiving stolen property over $250, pirating, possession for sale of unstamped cigarettes after police recovered over $50,000 worth of stolen merchandise that was being fenced out of Hancock Seafood Market at 260 Hancock Street and in an apartment upstairs at 262 Hancock St in ...
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Florida Woman Takes Her Baby Shoplifting, Then Resists LP
2010-02-04 08:11:00
Tiffany Lynn Boatwright allegedly took her 10-month-old daughter shoplifting on Wednesday at her local Walmart. According to police reports, she shoplifted over $300.00 worth of merchandise, including perfume, diapers, and some new undies. Then when she attempted to exit the store and was approached by store loss prevention, she put her baby at risk by ...
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You Know The Economy Is Bad When The Drug Companies Have To Shoplift
2010-02-03 04:36:00
Okay, so they aren?t a legitimate drug company; in fact, they?re not a company at all, but a trio from South Haven, MI, were arrested after police detained a 40-year-old female for retail fraud. She led the police to her accomplices, who were waiting in their car, with their meth lab. All three were arrested ...
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Woman Steals From Macy?s, Then Hides Merchandise In Her Mercedes
2010-02-03 04:10:00
Natasha Caines, 33, of Queens, NY, was nabbed by cops in Braintree, MA, after she allegedly stole some Nautica apparel from Macy ?s. She was observed by loss prevention agents trying to remove sensor tags from high end jackets. When she couldn?t get them off, she picked out the Nautica merchandise, that was not tagged, and ...
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More Loss Prevention Professionals Injured By Shoplifters
2010-02-02 20:37:00
A couple of weeks ago, we did a short article about the dangers of working in loss prevention. In that article, I noted several recent incidents of violence against LP personnel by shoplifters. Then, just a few days later, Greg Wainio was dragged to death by shoplifters Samantha Lomasny and James Woodworth while they tried ...
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Washington Man Uses Baby Stroller, Complete With Baby, To Steal Beer.
2010-02-02 02:42:00
I wish I had more details about this case, but sadly, I haven?t been able to find much. What I have found is that a 22-year-old man attempted to steal a 6-pack of beer from a local market in Bremerton, WA, by concealing the beer into a baby stroller that also contained his 2-month-old baby ...
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Two Ohio Women Abandon 7-Year-Old While Trying To Escape Shoplifting Charge
2010-01-31 06:13:00
Two unidentified Ohio women were charged with multiple counts, including Armed Robbery, Reckless Driving, Child Neglect, and Fleeing and Eluding after they shoplifted from JC Penney in the Green Oak Village Place mall in Green Oak, MI on January 30th. One of the subjects attempted to escape in a vehicle, and hit two other vehicles ...
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Woman Dies After Altercation With Loss Prevention
2010-01-19 15:57:00
Dorina Williams, of Mullins, SC died at the hospital on January 15th after she was involved in a fight with loss prevention personnel at the Conway, SC Walmart. The coroner?s ...
More About: Prevention , Woman , Loss

Kinky Shoplifter Wanted To Get Her Freak On
2010-01-17 01:50:00
Don?t shoplift from a sex shop. But, if you must, don?t get caught. 33-year-old Melody Sanders of Fort Walton Beach, FL, was caught shoplifting several kinky items, including a Triple ...
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Kmart Loss Prevention Officer Killed By Shoplifting Suspects (Update)
2010-01-17 00:06:00
  James Dean Woodworth and Samantha Lomasney have been charged with first degree murder in connection with the death of Kmart Loss Prevention Officer Greg Wainio, of Clarkston, MI. According ...
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Kmart Loss Prevention Associate Killed By Shoplifting Suspects
2010-01-15 07:13:00
An, as yet, unidentified loss prevention agent for Kmart in Waterford Township, MI, was killed yesterday when he was dragged several hundred feet by shoplifters attempting to escape in a ...
More About: Prevention , Loss , Shoplifting

Man Hides Child In Dumpster While Trying To Escape Shoplifting Charge
2010-01-12 16:28:00
This one doesn?t specifically fall under the ?Idiot Parent? award category, but since Louis Shaffer is related to at least 2 of the kids involved here, I figure, close ...
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Mom of 7 Crashes Van With Kids Inside While Trying To Escape Police
2010-01-11 06:10:00
Here?s our first Idiot Parent Award for 2010. Tammy Gutierrez, 35, of Green Bay, WI, has a history of shoplifting with her kids. On Thursday, January 7th, Gutierrez not only ...
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10 Years For Massaging The Meat, Oh My!!
2010-01-11 02:45:00
Mark Zachary of Orangeburg, SC, is apparently neither a good shoplifter nor liar. Last Wednesday, he was found guilty of shoplifting an $80 steak from Reid ?s Grocery in August last ...
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VA Couple CLAIMS To Have Stolen $230,000.00 From Area Retailers
2010-01-07 21:18:00
Justin Giordano, of Harrisonburg, VA, was arrested on December 22rd after shoplifting a large amount of merchandise from a local Barnes and Noble and then running from loss prevention. On ...
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Dangers Of The Job (Loss Prevention?s Inherent Dangers)
2010-01-07 02:36:00
As I was doing my usual daily search of the web for all things LP related, I came across several interesting stories today. As I read and made my notes, ...
More About: Prevention , Loss

Police Investigating Whether Shoplifters Involved In Walmart Employee Death
2010-01-03 20:45:00
Police in Albuquerque, NM, are investigating whether two suspected shoplifters had anything to do with the death of a Walmart employee on Saturday, January 2nd. The as yet unidentified ?Crime ...
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Economic Impact On Shrink
2008-04-21 23:06:00
When money is tight, a couple of things happen in regard to retail shrink. First, there is usually an increase in theft related activity, both external shoplifting and employee theft. People feel like they are making less these days. This is due to increasing costs and prices, and many companies are cutting unnecessary spending in ...
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Where Did We Go?
2008-03-18 03:45:00
Well,  I have been traveling a good bit lately, and have been very busy with meetings, training, and yes, investigations. So, the blog has had to take a back seat for a bit while I attend to my obligations to my company. Things will be normalizing soon, and I’ll be back to the regular posting ...

Keeping It REAL
2008-02-26 04:58:00
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been doing a lot of traveling. From routine visits to formal meetings to investigations, I’ve been putting on the miles. This “off-time” from keeping up with this blog gave me the opportunity to think about and identify my goal for this site. I want to approach it the same way I approach my training. I want to keep it REAL. Relavant: I want to speak to my audience, not in LP terminology, but in real dollars and sense. I want my content to be relevant to their situation. That’s tough when you are just learning who your audience is, but by producing what I hope is quality content that is easily understood and applied in practice, I want to keep the blog relevant to all who read it. Educational: One of my main goals is that my readers learn something new every time they visit. My goal is to help retailers save money and add to their profit line by reducing losses through shrink. Education is awareness. Awareness is the f...
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Employee Theft And Shoplifting Not Exclusive To Poor Folks
2008-02-18 23:51:00
I passed on a commentary about actress Bai Ling. I just felt that there were plenty of stories and opinions out there on this story. Then I found this story about a former bank vice president who embezzled over $500k from 2 banks of which he was an officer over a period of 5 years. Michael ...
More About: Exclusive , Theft , Shoplifting , Employee , Poor

How Would You Respond?
2008-02-11 02:46:00
I wasn’t sure if I should even respond to this comment left by a reader recently. But I did. Shame on me if I let my emotions get away with me for a minute, but I’m not sorry. You can find the original post here. Here’s the comment: mik // Feb 10, 2008 at 3:43 pm sounds ...
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When You?re Wanted For A Multi-Million Dollar Insurance Fraud Scheme, Don?t
2008-02-10 00:37:00
Here is a news story from Muncie, IN, where a woman wanted for two felonies that involved burning down houses in order to collect on the insurance was caught shoplifting at Walmart. Walmart loss prevention stopped her for shoplifting, and when the cops arrived, they recognized her from a “Wanted” poster. She also had some drugs ...
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16 Year Employee - $350,000.00 Embezzlement!
2008-02-06 05:41:00
AND, she began stealing soon after being hired, according to police! Here is a story out of Eugene, OR, where a trusted employee began stealing from her employer shortly after being hired, and continued to steal for 16 years before being caught. How was she caught? The employer didn’t have enough money to pay into ...
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New Shoplifting Method?
2008-02-04 01:02:00
Here is a story from Gainesville, Florida about a pair of shoplifters who were caught using a magnet to remove the sensor tags from merchandise so they could steal it. The story makes it sound as if this is a brand new method of theft. This isn’t new, shoplifters are always trying to defeat the tags ...
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Five Common Indicators Of Employee Theft
2008-02-02 19:39:00
Do you trust your employees? Sure we all want to believe that our employees are honest, and that they would never betray our trust in them by stealing money or merchandise from us. However, the fact is that, statistically, 2 in 10 employees will steal, given the right opportunity. That rate rises even higher when ...
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NH Mom Uses Her 3 Kids To Shoplift
2008-01-29 22:04:00
At first glance, when I read this story, I thought it was just another parenting geniusry article where a mom goes into a store and then uses her children to help her steal. Then I read the comments. I was absolutely amazed at how many people feel sorry for this woman. She was shoplifting from a ...
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Blogger Tag? Strange, But True
2008-01-29 01:22:00
I woke up this morning and, while going through my daily routine of reading before leaving for work, I saw that ShariV over at Express Marketing Memo had “tagged” me. I just finished... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Limited Time Offer!! Free E-Book!! Introduction To Loss Prevention For Smal
2008-01-27 03:41:00
For a limited time only, you can download my free ebook “Loss Prevention For Small Business” for free. This ebook is a 20 page sample of a full book that I’m working on. I’d... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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