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Sunday, January 07, 2007

Holidays bring retail-related crimes  (Identity Theft)


Holidays bring retail-related crimes 
Gunmen robbed a store before Potomac Mills mall even opened on Sunday. Police charged cashiers from Best Buy, Target and H&M with embezzlement. Two women were arrested after a suspected shoplifting incident at Marshalls.

Surveillance photos could crack credit card theft case 
She left her purse alone in her office for a few minutes, and that's all it took for a Hanover woman's credit cards to disappear. But pictures of the suspect using those cards could break the case. The victim believes someone slipped into her Memorial Regional Medical Center office and took her credit cards and ID. She didn't know until the thief went on a shopping spree.

Man opened accounts with fake identity 
Police said a Mesa used the identity of another person to open credit card and cell phone accounts.

NJHerald.com 
By TOM HOWELL JR. NEWTON Two out-of-county adults admitted Monday they and a 17-year-old from Hardyston went on a car burglary spree in five eastern Sussex County municipalities last summer until one was recognized at the Franklin Wal-Mart.