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Friday, May 17, 2013

Is Declining to Be Searched, When You Did Nothing Wrong, Disorderly Conduct?

It was for a man recently arrested in a Loganville Walmart.

You're out shopping -- wearing some new jeans you bought at another store and forgot to remove the tag from. A store employee gets suspicious, and police ask you to step into the loss-prevention office so they can check out your pants to make sure you're not shoplifting them. You're not shoplifting, so you say no, you can't check out my pants. And out come the handcuffs. The charge for not cooperating, you're warned, is disorderly conduct. What do you do? A Loganville man recently opted for the disorderly conduct charge rather than agree to take his tag-on jeans to the loss-prevention office. A review of security tapes showed he hadn't been shoplifting the pants, but the disorderly conduct charge stuck. Did he commit a crime? Share your …

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Why You Should Always Remove the Tag on New Jeans Before Going Shopping in Them (in Loganville-Grayson Patch)

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Mr. B

7:45 pm on Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Compliance with their request would negate civil action in a court of law. If innocent, refuse until you are in handcuffs, then you are actionable against the corporation and the police jurisdiction. I'll take my 30% off the top of that action anyday.   more ›

Friday, November 30, 2012

How Much Shoplifting Costs You in Snellville

Shoplifting may have led to a man's death outside a Lithonia Walmart, but how does the petty crime affect the average consumer?

Shoplifting, a petty crime that may have cost a man his life outside a Walmart in Lithonia, hits Georgia families in the pocketbook each year. Vidal Calloway, 40—a good person who had a drug problem, according to his wife—was dead when police came to arrest him on suspicion of shoplifting two DVD players, Stone Mountain-Lithonia Patch reported. The police report indicated Calloway was involved in an altercation with two employees and a private security agent. The "truly sad situation," according to Walmart, brings to light incidents that happen every day, all across the country, and even more so during the holidays. About 27 million people in America—that's 1 in 11 people—are shoplifters, according to the National Association for …

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Report: Wife Says Lithonia Walmart Shoplifting Suspect Was Good Person, Had Drug Problem (in Stone Mountain-Lithonia Patch), Man Dead After Altercation At Lithonia Walmart (in Stone Mountain-Lithonia Patch), Walmart: Incident at Lithonia Store 'Truly a Sad Situation' (in Stone Mountain-Lithonia Patch), and 1 more ›

Antony Bordoli

3:05 pm on Saturday, December 1, 2012

Having worked in retail electronics mgmt where shoplifting was a serious concern I had obtained the "eagle eye" to detect the suspicious behavior that most shoplifters exhibit. Even after witnessing the stuffing of items into clothes or depackaging items in the restroom, I have notified mgmt but all they do is watch them walk out the door. Given that the costs of shoplifting blowback on the …   more ›

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