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Kennewick Police have issued a bulletin about a 3 member family who has committed a series of thefts from shoppers across the Tri-Cities area in late summer.
Read More →Two women were taken into custody for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars worth of Ulta Beauty products from multiple stores, including locations in Lacey and Olympia.
Read More →Kent Police arrested several suspects in a shoplifting operation this weekend, including a man who stuffed expensive meats down his pants and tried to walk out of a store with them.
Read More →Kroger, Target, Walgreens, and Whole Foods have closed stores due to crime, but local operators may be getting hit the hardest.
Read More →Convicted of one of the crimes associated with Lululemon theft ring; receives a sentence of time served.
Read More →If you've visited a big-box retailer such as Walmart or Target recently and noticed everyday items such as detergent or razors behind locked glass, you're not dreaming. It's a symptom of a covert, enormous issue tormenting retailers: organized retail crime.
Read More →growing target of organized retail theft, with Class I railroads reporting a 40% jump in thefts from 2023 to 2024 and more than 65,000 incidents last year.
Read More →Have you bought a gift card recently from a big-box retailer? You could have inadvertently funded the sex trafficking of a child or the war in the Ukraine. Gift-card fraud is the latest trend in organized retail crime.
Read More →It’s time to set the record straight — claims that ORC losses are inflated due to inventory shrink are inaccurate
Read More → A wave of grocery store closures is coming to Puget Sound as Kroger announced it will shut down 60 stores nationwide over the next 18 months,
Read More →Multiple Fred Meyer stores will be shutting their doors this fall in western Washington, with the company blaming it on a steady rise in theft.
Read More →Increase was attributed to the implementation of a prosecutor dedicated to working full-time on retail crime case filings.
Read More →KING COUNTY, Wash. — New funding to fight organized retail theft is now part of the campaign platform for Claudia Balducci, who is seeking to become the next King County executive.
Read More →A recent survey from the National Retail Federation revealed that 50 percent of retailers are more concerned with retail crime than they were just one year ago.
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Senate hearing shines light on organized retail theft
It’s time to set the record straight — claims that ORC losses are inflated due to inventory shrink are inaccurate
Read More →Police say the trio of suspects stole over $143,000 of merchandise from multiple stores.
Read More →SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today the creation of a statewide Organized Retail Crime Theft Task Force.
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