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P*ssed-off shoplifter hits us with her car!
Wow, my first day back from vacation was fun!
Got a call from our biggest store that they’re watching a group of shoplifters and for us to be in-place when they make the stop. I go to their door leading to the rest of the mall, my coworker waits at the outside one. The 2-women with a small child exited into the mall. Store security motioned to me that that was them, and she made the stop. These 2-women, especially the mother of the child, are OUTRAGED! Outraged because store security ‘didn’t see us do nothin’!’ They refused to return to the store, so we followed them while store security called the police. I updated my coworker and gave him a description. The women went out another mall entrance, but then began circling back to the parking lot of the store they stole from; probably trying to fake us out. I’m watching the slower woman while store security keeps-up with the woman with the car keys; oh, the woman with the car keys was the mother, who left her daughter with the woman I was watching, which was what was slowing her down. We split-up in watching them to ensure they didn’t ditch the merchandise. The first woman circled a couple of cars so we didn’t know what was hers, then made a dash to an suv and fired it up. My coworker had just passed that row in the security vehicle, so he backed-up to the suv. I’m still tailing the 2nd woman from about 40 feet away when I see the suv’s reverse lights go on. Great. She backed-up about a foot, then stopped. She knew my coworker was there. Then I see the brakelights go off….
WHAMCRUNCH! She just ROCKETED backwards into our security vehicle, which rocked hard, but stayed-put. Then she jumped-out of the suv SCREAMING, you couldn’t even make-out what she was saying. She and the 2nd woman start putting her daughter in the suv and she’s saying how we can’t keep her here, she’s going to get away, etc. Store security had already relayed how this woman just rammed our car, so THEN we hear the sirens coming. My coworker was out of the security vehicle and just fine, it’s an old solid-metal car, and telling the woman that he hopes she has good insurance! NOW the 2-women look panicked and the first woman jumped back in the driver’s seat and started flinging clothing out the passenger-side door, screaming “here’s the damn underwear! Take the damn underwear!” Store security told them they had a LOT more than that. The first woman threw some more out, then demanded they be allowed to leave. No can do. The Police pulled-up just then and grabbed the first woman out of the car and cuffed her. The 2nd woman was allowed to stay with the child, as she wasn’t making a fuss. The first woman is SCREAMING how they can’t search her car, she gave the stuff back, they can’t search it! Store security showed the police what the first woman had returned, but explained that at least 4 more items had been taken and that both women had been in the fitting room together, and how when they had entered the store, the 2nd woman’s huge shoulder bag had been limp, whereas it was now bulging. The 2nd woman finally emptied her bag and there was the rest of the stuff. The total was about $300. Another family member finally arrived to pick-up the first woman’s daughter and driver her car home and both women were arrested and taken away. Oh, her suv didn’t even have a mark on it, but the whole back panel of our security vehicle was caved-in. Luckily her bumper missed the tire; those are new! And being metal we’ll probably just have to pop the dent back out and smooth it over a bit.
We’ll all be going to court over this one. Technically, we shouldn’t keep people from leaving unless the police direct us to, or it’s unlawful detainment. But we can argue that my coworker was sitting there to get the plate number and that she never asked him to move. Meh. She’s lucky she’s not being charged with assault with a deadly weapon. I felt really bad for her daughter though, her mother’s screaming was freaking her out. The mother was also arguing that store security had no right to stop her and that they’d singled them out because they’re (insert race). No, security has a variety of behaviors they look for too. The empty purses were a tip-off, and the fact that the women grabbed a cart and were just tossing items in without looking at packaging or pricing, which is odd. Then they both went in the fitting room together, and left the store after dropping the now-empty cart off at the door. Nope, nothing suspicious about that at all!
Got a call from our biggest store that they’re watching a group of shoplifters and for us to be in-place when they make the stop. I go to their door leading to the rest of the mall, my coworker waits at the outside one. The 2-women with a small child exited into the mall. Store security motioned to me that that was them, and she made the stop. These 2-women, especially the mother of the child, are OUTRAGED! Outraged because store security ‘didn’t see us do nothin’!’ They refused to return to the store, so we followed them while store security called the police. I updated my coworker and gave him a description. The women went out another mall entrance, but then began circling back to the parking lot of the store they stole from; probably trying to fake us out. I’m watching the slower woman while store security keeps-up with the woman with the car keys; oh, the woman with the car keys was the mother, who left her daughter with the woman I was watching, which was what was slowing her down. We split-up in watching them to ensure they didn’t ditch the merchandise. The first woman circled a couple of cars so we didn’t know what was hers, then made a dash to an suv and fired it up. My coworker had just passed that row in the security vehicle, so he backed-up to the suv. I’m still tailing the 2nd woman from about 40 feet away when I see the suv’s reverse lights go on. Great. She backed-up about a foot, then stopped. She knew my coworker was there. Then I see the brakelights go off….
WHAMCRUNCH! She just ROCKETED backwards into our security vehicle, which rocked hard, but stayed-put. Then she jumped-out of the suv SCREAMING, you couldn’t even make-out what she was saying. She and the 2nd woman start putting her daughter in the suv and she’s saying how we can’t keep her here, she’s going to get away, etc. Store security had already relayed how this woman just rammed our car, so THEN we hear the sirens coming. My coworker was out of the security vehicle and just fine, it’s an old solid-metal car, and telling the woman that he hopes she has good insurance! NOW the 2-women look panicked and the first woman jumped back in the driver’s seat and started flinging clothing out the passenger-side door, screaming “here’s the damn underwear! Take the damn underwear!” Store security told them they had a LOT more than that. The first woman threw some more out, then demanded they be allowed to leave. No can do. The Police pulled-up just then and grabbed the first woman out of the car and cuffed her. The 2nd woman was allowed to stay with the child, as she wasn’t making a fuss. The first woman is SCREAMING how they can’t search her car, she gave the stuff back, they can’t search it! Store security showed the police what the first woman had returned, but explained that at least 4 more items had been taken and that both women had been in the fitting room together, and how when they had entered the store, the 2nd woman’s huge shoulder bag had been limp, whereas it was now bulging. The 2nd woman finally emptied her bag and there was the rest of the stuff. The total was about $300. Another family member finally arrived to pick-up the first woman’s daughter and driver her car home and both women were arrested and taken away. Oh, her suv didn’t even have a mark on it, but the whole back panel of our security vehicle was caved-in. Luckily her bumper missed the tire; those are new! And being metal we’ll probably just have to pop the dent back out and smooth it over a bit.
We’ll all be going to court over this one. Technically, we shouldn’t keep people from leaving unless the police direct us to, or it’s unlawful detainment. But we can argue that my coworker was sitting there to get the plate number and that she never asked him to move. Meh. She’s lucky she’s not being charged with assault with a deadly weapon. I felt really bad for her daughter though, her mother’s screaming was freaking her out. The mother was also arguing that store security had no right to stop her and that they’d singled them out because they’re (insert race). No, security has a variety of behaviors they look for too. The empty purses were a tip-off, and the fact that the women grabbed a cart and were just tossing items in without looking at packaging or pricing, which is odd. Then they both went in the fitting room together, and left the store after dropping the now-empty cart off at the door. Nope, nothing suspicious about that at all!
.... thus never even getting to any other aspect of her case. 
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