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Code Adam logo. Code Adam is a missing-child safety program in the United States and Canada, originally created by Walmart retail stores in 1994. [1] This type of alert is generally regarded as having been named in memory of Adam Walsh, the 6-year-old son of John Walsh (the host of Fox's America's Most Wanted).
A store detective (also known as Asset Protection Investigator, undercover shopper, Loss Prevention Detective, and Asset Protection Specialist) is a member of loss prevention whose main role is to prevent and detect theft (commonly known as shoplifting) and reduce shrink in retail outlets. [1]
In early 2008 in Florida, a single shoplifting investigation turned up a massive organized enterprise. Operating for at least five years, criminals had stolen up to $100 million in medicine, health and beauty goods. [15] Texas FBI agents pulled over a rental truck, leading them to $2.7 million in stolen assets. The goods included $1 million in ...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was the first agency to create a most wanted list. [1] The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list was inaugurated on March 14, 1950, at the direction of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The idea for the list came from a question asked by a reporter for the International News Service. The reporter asked the FBI ...
The deputy determined she was already wanted on warrants in Athens charging her with shoplifting. This article originally appeared on Athens Banner-Herald: Oconee Blotter: Woman catches men ...
Authorities say a trio of shoplifters left behind a 3-month-old girl while fleeing from security guards at a Philadelphia Walmart.
A second Walmart crime this week comes courtesy of Florida, where a woman stole a TV worth $448. Then she came back later that same day and attempted the exact same crime, apparently emboldened by ...
In 1965, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a sixteenth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. As the year 1965 began, eight of the ten places on the list remained filled by these elusive long-time fugitives from prior years, then still at large: