Category Archives: Shoplifting

A pair have been jailed for 12 months for operating a business where one travelled around the county, stealing goods and then passed them on to his partner who sold them on his eBay account, for a 25% cut.

As police report an increase in high value thefts, Kent Online reports that a serial shoplifter has been banned from entering more than 100 stores in Swale.

Peter Beale, of Sittingbourne, was found guilty of six cases of shoplifting, including stealing a £99 trampoline from the town’s Asda.

A woman made more than £240,000 by selling stolen designer handbags online.

Anna Hindmarsh, 40, was found with a de-tagging magnet during her arrest in Stockport and a further investigation found she had used various eBay accounts to sell more than 1,000 high-value handbags over a four-year period.

According to Wales Online, a woman made £1,000 a month on eBay selling watches, sunglasses and other goods stolen from Swansea’s Debenhams store by her husband who was a security man there.

A jury has been told that 37-year-old Mari Richards used some of the cash to fund spa treatments in Bath and trips to the Ritz hotel and shopping sprees at Harrods in London.

The Courier reports that an elderly crook admitted being responsible for shoplifting offences over several months along with his 50-year-old daughter.
According to a police source, their appearance was the ‘perfect cover’ as they ‘looked like they were about to set off on a Saga holiday.’

Children as young as 10 have been arrested for shoplifting in Glasgow stores, according to the Evening Times.

Almost 500 youngsters have been nabbed by city cops in the past year. Of those, 303 were aged between 11 and 15 and, most shockingly, six schoolchildren – aged just 10-years-old – were linked to the crimes.