Category Archives: Shoplifting

CCTV footage of unknown criminals targeting Portsmouth will be shared across Hampshire to help identify prolific offenders.

Crime prevention agencies can now access around 2,500 images of criminals which could help put names to faces of thieves.

According to Chad, a man went on a shoplifting spree in Mansfield after his girlfriend dumped him.

Mihai Talian stole clothes from Sport Direct and River Island worth £142 after a telephone call with his girlfriend in Romania ended with her informing him that she had formed a new relationship.

The Mirror reported that three Romanian shoplifters caught with a boot load of baby formula milk powder have been spared jail time.

An off-duty police officer spotted the trio sneakingmilk out of a Co-Op in Woodbridge, took photographs of their car and then alerted his colleagues.

As reported on Mail Online, there is growing trend where brazen shoplifters post their ill-gotten hauls on social media platform, Tumblr.

Growing communities of mainly young women are posting photos – and accompanying hashtags, such as #shoplifting – to advocate the so-called ‘lift life’.

The Sun ran a story with an embedded video that shows how a shoplifter had stashed a phenomenal number of stolen items about her person.

When the woman was asked to empty her pockets of her booty, she started by putting a couple of small items in the trolley then went on and on and on.

The Mansfield and Ashfield Chad reports that a thief was caught shoplifting from the same branch of Asda twice within four days.

A court heard that on March 15, Costin Valentin Ispir loaded his trolley with goods, worth £318, and walked out without paying. He and a partner did the same thing on March 19.