Friday, May 17, 2013
It was for a man recently arrested in a Loganville Walmart.
You're out shopping -- wearing some new jeans you bought at another store and forgot to remove the tag from. A store employee gets suspicious, and police ask you to step into the loss-prevention office so they can check out your pants to make sure you're not shoplifting them. You're not shoplifting, so you say no, you can't check out my pants. And out come the handcuffs. The charge for not cooperating, you're warned, is disorderly conduct. What do you do? A Loganville man recently opted for the disorderly conduct charge rather than agree to take his tag-on jeans to the loss-prevention office. A review of security tapes showed he hadn't been shoplifting the pants, but the disorderly conduct charge stuck. Did he commit a crime? Share your …
Monday, December 3, 2012
Shoplifting may have led to a man's death outside a Lithonia Walmart, but how does the petty crime affect the average consumer?
From Cartersville Patch Shoplifting, a petty crime that may have cost a man his life outside a Walmart in Lithonia, hits Georgia families in the pocketbook each year. Vidal Calloway, 40—a good person who had a drug problem, according to his wife—was dead when police came to arrest him on suspicion of shoplifting two DVD players, Stone Mountain-Lithonia Patch reported. The police report indicated Calloway was involved in an altercation with two employees and a private security agent. The "truly sad situation," according to Walmart, brings to light incidents that happen every day, all across the country, and even more so during the holidays. About 27 million people in America—that's 1 in 11 people—are shoplifters, according to the National …
Thursday, December 15, 2011
CBS News reports that a Norcross area man tried to shoplift from Home Depot. When he was caught, he rand with his daughter in a shopping cart.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
A man in the Norcross area attempted to shoplift about $500 worth of copper wire from the Jimmy Carter Boulevard Home Depot. When he was busted by an employee, he took off with his daughter in a shopping cart, CBS Atlanta reports. A Home Depot employee spotting the shoplifting a first started chasing 29-year-old David Andrew Finn inside the store. When the employee caught up with the man, Finn allegedly bit the man's hand and kept hightailing it--pushing the 4-year-old in a shopping cart. Gwinnett Police officers caught up with him at the Pine View Townhomes nearby, according to the report. Finn grabbed his daughter out of the cart and attempted to keep running, but officers ordered him to put her down and subsequently tackled him. He …
Mr. B
7:45 pm on Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Compliance with their request would negate civil action in a court of law. If innocent, refuse until you are in handcuffs, then you are actionable against the corporation and the police jurisdiction. I'll take my 30% off the top of that action anyday. more ›