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    Today, after enjoying a taco dinner at a fairly new restaurant and depositing some of my money into the ATM machine, I decided to go have some ice cream. On the way, I saw a police officer go into a store. Since I wasn't ready to eat ice cream yet, I decided to look around the store. I didn't see anything I wanted so eventually I left the store.

    When I was in the store, I heard the customer mention something about stealing a necklace. Several minutes later, a few police officers came out of the store with the customer who was in handcuffs.

    At least one police officer went back into the store. I headed off to have my ice cream.
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    My fondest memory of the Deb Shop was one day strolling into work at about 4:50for my 5:00 to 9:00 shift, and seeing a group of tweens sitting on the floor, a security guard watching them (waiting for the cops to show up), a couple of big brown Hollister bags on the floor that were empty, and multiple pairs of underwear and other girly undergarments strewn about on the floor.

    A few days later, those undergarments were stuck to the wall and there was a huge pizza in the back room with a "Good Job Girls!" sign on the wall written by the general manager.
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    • #3
      I'm guessing this customer stole the necklace elsewhere. Far as I know, the store the customer was arrested in doesn't sell necklaces.
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      • #4
        I love reading about customers that get arrested. I get that cloud 9 feeling.
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        • #5
          The store I work at used to permit shoplifting. I'm not kidding, it was a place you could literally get away with it and management had a "don't ask, don't tell" policy in place which was enforced with employees. Thankfully the owner didn't agree.

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          • #6
            Quoth purplecat41877 View Post
            I'm guessing this customer stole the necklace elsewhere. Far as I know, the store the customer was arrested in doesn't sell necklaces.
            This reminds me of something that happened in my store in the past. I posted about it on some other forum.

            In the strip mall attached to my store, there is a store called Maurices. They sell womens clothing. They used to sell mens clothing, and I used to buy jeans and work pants there, but they discontinued the mens clothes in favor of womens plus. Booooo.....they had nice things. But anyway....

            Here's what happened:
            • Maurcies employees catch somebody stealing clothes from their store.
            • They chase after the shoplifter
            • Shoplifter runs through the mall into our store, and runs into the bathroom
            • Our LP person happens to be around at the time, and apprehends the shoplifter at the request of the Maurices employees who had been chasing her. The shoplifter is dumping her swag into the garbage can when she is caught.
            • Shoplifter is detained in our LP office (again, supposedly at request of the Maurices people), the police come and take her away.


            On the forum I posted this story on, I got a reply from somebody claiming to be a lawyer saying this was improper and opened our store up to a false arrest lawsuit. The reason was we had no right to detain the shoplifter in our store since she didn't steal from our store. She stole from Maurices; therefore what our LP should have done, if anything, was accompany the shoplifter and the Maurices people back to Maurices for detention.

            Anyway, we never heard from the shoplifter or had any false arrest lawsuit filed against us. But it does raise questions about what staff of a certain store are allowed to do if somebody is caught there with goods shoplifter from someplace else.
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            • #7
              IANAL, but I believe LP personnel rely on "citizen's arrest" principles to do their job.

              My understanding of this (from a British perspective) is that an ordinary person is allowed to use reasonable force to detain another person whom he strongly suspects of committing a crime, to allow time for the police to arrive and make a proper arrest. It says nothing about whether that crime has to be against himself rather than a third party.

              So the Maurices LP people are chasing the guy shouting "stop thief!" and the other LP people hear this. As far as they're concerned, Maurices' LP are not in the habit of making frivolous accusations, and the suspect is on their property, so they have the opportunity to apprehend him if they choose. Further evidence is then provided by the unusual behaviour of the suspect in the toilet. They then graciously offer the Maurices LP people a nearby office, to minimise the force required to restrain him.

              It all sounds like best practice to me, and perfectly effective.

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              • #8
                Quoth Chromatix View Post
                IANAL, but I believe LP personnel rely on "citizen's arrest" principles to do their job.

                My understanding of this (from a British perspective) is that an ordinary person is allowed to use reasonable force to detain another person whom he strongly suspects of committing a crime, to allow time for the police to arrive and make a proper arrest. It says nothing about whether that crime has to be against himself rather than a third party.
                Don't I WISH I could do this!

                Seriously, I work in LP at my store, but I'm not allowed to lay so much as a finger on a suspected thief. I'm supposed to just block their path with my body, and if they keep refusing to stop or go around me, I still cannot physically restrain them.

                It's irritating as hell, because there was one time I KNOW this woman had stolen something, but because she's ignoring my calls for her to stop and come back (literally, she looked back, saw me motioning for her to come back, and then turned away and kept going), I had to try and hazard a guess at the license plate on the waiting truck she got into.

                And, of course, there's the Soda Thief story I related elsewhere on the site.
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                • #9
                  You shouldn't be calling him a customer if he was stealing. That's no kind of customer I know of.

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                  • #10
                    Quoth dithers66 View Post
                    You shouldn't be calling him a customer if he was stealing.
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                    • #11
                      Quoth dithers66 View Post
                      You shouldn't be calling him a customer if he was stealing. That's no kind of customer I know of.
                      If he bought something as well, he'd be considered a customer and a thief. Sort of like an officer and a gentleman, but with worse manners.

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                      • #12
                        I just remembered

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                        He pulls a couple of the classic lines, and proceeds to go watch the show inside the park.

                        We have an on duty police officer working at the park. He's called 5-6 minutes later and gives the guy a parking ticket and we consider having the car towed because he's parked in the middle of the street.
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