Posted on 05/15/2024 10:02:09 PM PDT by Morgana
Footage shows the moment a not-so-dynamic duo were caught stealing a cash register from a Seattle pharmacy - seconds after walking through its doors.
The unnamed male and female suspect were promptly arrested, cops said on Wednesday - releasing the almost unbelievable clip in the process.
The video shows a team from the Seattle Police Department approaching the Walgreens the pair had just looted - before coming face-to-face with the 20-year-old female, cash register in tow.
'Woah! Woah! Hey!' one of the officers says, as the woman stops in her tracks. Her 40-year-old accomplice, meanwhile, stands still, similarly dumbfounded.
'Put that down,' the officer, recording via his body-worn camera, orders her.
The unnamed woman follows suit, but her masked partner in crime apparently had other ideas.
He fled from the scene to a parking lot nearby, cops said in their statement, while another segment of the video shows his arrest.
It begins with the bumbling suspect hiding literally in plain sight of a police officer - this one also recording the action with his bodycam.
'He's hiding,' the officer is heard telling his colleagues over the radio after calmly walking away from the alleged crook's conspicuous hiding spot, as if he had not seen him.
Eventually, the suspect makes an exit, raising his hands slightly in a haphazard surrender.
'Show me your hands,' the officers orders, to which the man barely complies, while walking forward.
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I know this is meant to be humorous but will the officer get in trouble now? No warrant. No probable cause. Singled out someone assuming they must be a criminal. Criminal might have said “I’m taking this to the shop for repair under the warranty.”
If high end jewelry stores, electronics displays under glass and discount stores have thugs filling large plastic trash bags with stolen merchandise and leaving without arrest or being chased in traffic, then how does this officer get by with stopping someone?
I’m just being sarcastic. Bitter from so many store looting stories.
I would have liked hearing the discussion when they veered into the idea of skipping the normal and decided that shop lifting the cash register was the most direct path to take.
Seattle - my home town - is a hell hole that has been created by delusional, insane Democrats. And people keep voting them into office as if they are doing a great job! Unreal.
Did you not see in the video that after she came out of the store with the register one of the store clerks was chasing her?
But clerks are told not to chase them. That’s what happened in the past 3 years or so of flash mob garbage bag lootings.
Maybe they could have told the cop, they were going to pay for the register. They were just going to their car, to get their check book.
Someone was chasing them I saw it in the video. It looks like a woman with long dark hair and it looks like she has an ID clipped on the bottom of her shirt. I watched several times and it looks like she ran from across the store and outside. Then she saw the officer and stopped when she saw he had it under control, then she went back inside.
I don't understand. Couldn't they have simply printed out a receipt to show that they had paid for it?
Regards,
Mall cop: "Where are you going with that cash register?"
Shoplifter: "To get my checkbook, so that I can pay for it! I left it at home!"
Mall cop: "Where do you live?"
Shoplifter: "Jamaica!"
Regards,
They wuz found dumb.
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If you’re going to run from the cops, make sure your pants are up.
Dang...woman had some hollow-point rounds in the pistol mag!
I left in 1998 and never looked back.
You’re right about everything.
Still true employees and police are on the defensive now, though.
Really old library crime story from my working days.
A young guy with his arms full of high value stolen library books went through the tattletape alarm front exit. A student assistant’s boyfriend decided to be a hero and raced after him on foot, running a long way through the campus. The perp’s foot hit one of the many cracks in the sidewalk and he fell hard and was caught.
Ending: He sued the university and won a large sum in court for a broken bone from the fall. The student who chased him was reprimanded but not jailed after assault charge was plea bargained. Library head reminded everyone not to try to enforce the law on their own or they’d be fired.
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