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Fountain and the Macks are just a few of the recent organized retail theft ring leaders who were arrested for their crimes. In most cases, tracking down the sentencing information is a complicated ...
The California mom who pleaded guilty to running an organized retail crime ring that stole millions of dollars in beauty products from Ulta Beauty and Sephora to resell on Amazon will now have to ...
FORCE was launched to identify trends, suspects and take down massive, organized retail theft rings by facilitating the sharing of theft information among retailers, law enforcement and prosecutors.
Some lawmakers have tied Proposition 47 to an increase in retail theft. Several have authored unsuccessful bills to repeal or change the law, in some cases lowering the felony theft threshold to $400.
By 2019, organized retail theft was on the rise. Police and store owners attributed it to Prop 47. [ 35 ] Fox News reported that post Prop 47, both shoplifters and fencers operated openly and with impunity, with both criminals and storekeepers aware that selective enforcement policies mean that police largely ignore reports of shoplifting, or ...
Operations by the California’s Organized Retail Crime Task Force, which formed in 2019, have led to 1,055 arrests and the recovery of more than $7.8 million worth of stolen merchandise, the ...
Proposition 36, titled Allows Felony Charges and Increases Sentences for Certain Drug and Theft Crimes, was an initiated California ballot proposition and legislative statute that was passed by a landslide in the 2024 general election [2] [3] and went into effect in December 2024. [4]
California Attorney General Rob Bonta unveiled charges Friday against a woman accused of orchestrating a nearly $8 million organized retail theft spree across 21 counties — including Sacramento ...