Posted on 07/21/2021 1:14:04 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
LOS ANGELES - Shoplifters hit TJ Maxx in Granada Hills on Monday in a brazen robbery captured on video.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, two unidentified suspects entered the store between 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. and grabbed dozens of items each. The pair was captured on bystander video leaving the store without paying and the LAPD later said that the pair "refused to pay."
This happened at the TJ Maxx located at 18045 Chatsworth Street in Granada Hills.
"That looks great," the bystander who took the video can be heard saying as the pair headed towards the door with their stash.
One of the men was seen carrying an oversized duffle bag on his back.
Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to hold a news conference in Los Angeles County Wednesday morning on the state's efforts to address crime and reduce retail theft. Newsom will be joined by law enforcement leaders and state and local officials. Prior to the news conference, Newsom will meet with law enforcement leaders, legislators and local officials.
In recent months, California has seen an uptick in retail and grocery store thefts. Just last week, a Rite Aid employee in Glassell Park was fatally shot by two shoplifters when he tried to stop them from stealing cases of beer.
Meanwhile, a video surfaced earlier this month showing a man stealing items in a San Francisco Walgreens and leaving the store on his bike with the goods as security guards and onlookers filmed the incident.
The crimes have operators in the grocery and retail industries raising concerns about harsher penalties for theft.
During a Facebook Live, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva discussed the rise in crimes. He said Prop 47 and district attorneys who pride themselves to be progressives and reform minded and who do not prosecute thefts are the real problem.
"In the past, pre Prop-47 and pre these progressive DA’s like George Gascón, they’d [suspects] at least bother to run out, now they don’t even bother to run out. They just causally stroll out with all the time in the world knowing that as long as they keep the tally under $950 it’s perfectly OK," Villanueva stated.
When the amount of items stolen are under $950 it is considered a petty theft and charged as a misdemeanor.
Just like Durban.
Same issue, I presume.
Since it’s TJ Maxx, are they charged by the ticket price of the goods or the ‘comparable value” price printed above that?
Just a misdemeanor, what the heck! I deserve these reparations!
I grew up within walking distance of this. TJ Max was not there at the time.
Commiefornians voted for this lawless behavior; they can have it. And Commiefornia businesses will just pass on the cost of “shrinkage” to their Commiefornia customers.
Needed new clothes for their girlfriends
It’s a two-fer really. A misdemeanor still carries a potential 1 year jail sentence. But the DAs don’t prosecute them, and for stealing $900 worth of stuff is it really worth it to the taxpayers to pay for food, shelter, medical care etc for a year?
For the most part my impression is that these are organized theft rings. The ringleaders could face felony charges for racketeering among other crimes.
Of course in most cases these items are just being resold on various platforms or to brick and mortar small shops who may or may not know they are stolen items. I suppose any person who goes on a “spree” stealing $900 or less many times over and reselling them could also face more serious charges. IANAL but it doesn’t seem on its face to be an easy case to make. Some DA somewhere has to bust someone engaged in this activity to make the point - at a minimum.
“...the state’s efforts to address crime and reduce retail theft.”
If it isn’t illegal then it isn’t theft and it isn’t a crime - problem solved.
Me too, well maybe bike distance. That location was a supermarket called Thriftimart when I was a kid.
It’s all good. It’s what they voted for.
Where I live we’re allowed to shoot nuisance animals 24/7 no license needed.
Just blowing to pieces the libtard theory that they will hit only upscale places like Nordstroms or Saks . . .
When your lawmakers pass a law that says you aren’t going to prosecute theft below a certain dollar figure and then you’re surprise when shoplifting increases tells me you’re an idiot.
It’s across the street from Granada Hills High School. There was a large store like Walmart that opened up while I was at school. Can’t remember the name but I think it had a symbol similar to the ‘N’ that NBC once had.
Is Merrick Garland going to stop these Nazi white supreemists or not?
Ah, so Satan’s children continue their terrorist tactics of destruction, grand theft, and all kinds of evil behavior absolutely unabated.
......Meanwhile, the democrats look the other way and shout lies about “white racism.”
Sounds like a typical day in Crime City, CA.
May God’s Righteous Fury be upon that Satanic POS Garland.
I was shopping at a store in Century City decades ago when I witnessed exactly the same thing. I went and told a clerk to call the police and she told me, “we know they do that. No way to stop them. Costs more to prosecute than the loss we take on clothes.:”
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