Category Archives: Shoplifting

The Convenience Store website reports that a London-based Nisa store has invested in smart technology to tackle shoplifting and has stopped 15 thieves in two weeks.
Once connected to existing cameras through the internet, Artificial Intelligence (AI) software monitors all the cameras for shoplifters.

The Wales Online website reports that a crime gang recruited teenage girls around the UK in a £500,000 shoplifting scam.

Gang members, including ringleader Isaiah Olugosi, recruited, trained and transported the youngsters to commit refund fraud in high street stores across the country.

The Chester Standard website reports that a serial meat thief from Ellesmere Port has been jailed for a total of 36 weeks.

Brendan Michael James Fitzpatrick pleaded guilty to a total of 10 charges of stealing meat from stores including M&S and Iceland.

Two sisters stole hundreds of pounds of goods from shops in a retail centre to pay their bills.

A court heard that Kasie Jade McGailey and Tabitha Aimme McGailey’s offences were made out of ‘sheer desperation’ and came about after the Government’s axing of the Universal Credit uplift.

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.