Category Archives: Shoplifting

According to the Birmingham Live website, a pair of shoplifters have been jailed after they staged a “sophisticated, pre-planned operation” to steal clothes from TK Maxx.

Florentina Carcu and Daniela Grama used a device to defeat the retailer’s security measures, working as a team to steal almost £2,000-worth of clothing.

According to the Northampton Chronicle website, a shoplifter was sent to jail three days before Christmas after admitting 13 thefts from five shops, totalling £1,600.

Vaughan Coe took booze totalling more than £870 from M&S, BP, One Stop and Sainsbury’s, plus £80-worth of Cathedral City Cheddar cheese from B&M.

According to the Lancashire Telegraph website, a serial shoplifter has been banned from all branches of Boots, Homebase, Tesco and Nisa stores for two years.

Colin Andrew Bray pleaded guilty to five charges of shoplifting and one of assaulting a member of staff at Nisa who had tried to stop him leaving.

The Telegraph & Argus website reports that a shoplifting grandmother cried in court as she was locked up for Christmas.

Sarah Jane Simpson was caught stealing from one shop and handling items stolen from another shop in York on a wholesale basis, amassing a total haul worth £1,800.

The York Press website reports that a thief who joined Black Friday shopping crowds in York to carry out a shoplifting raid will spend Christmas behind bars.

Maria Smith took clothing and perfume gift sets worth £363 at Fenwick and walked out with them without paying, before staff stopped her outside the department store.

The Birmingham Live website reports that a shoplifter who stole meat worth hundreds of pounds from a city Marks and Spencer store has been jailed.

Liam Wilcox was arrested after West Midlands Police took to Twitter to post CCTV footage of a man suspected of stealing from the branch in Sheldon.