Posted on 08/19/2024 9:01:51 AM PDT by dennisw
A California shoplifter with expensive taste tried to hide from cops in the trunk of her Tesla after swiping $850 in goods from Lululemon and Sephora.
Emely Yanagida, 35, was arrested for shoplifting at Irvine Spectrum Center, stealing $600 worth of make-up and $250 in workout gear.
The Irvine Police Department released footage on Saturday which showed officers discover her bizarre hideout - as she hid under a bright green tarp in her Tesla's trunk.
The incident occurred on Wednesday when loss prevention officers at the Sephora alerted police to a shoplifting suspect who had fled the store.
Irvine police shared the footage on Facebook, captioning it 'Peek-a-Boo' with hashtags #dontcommitcrimeinirvine.
A California shoplifter with expensive taste tried to hide from cops in the trunk of her Tesla after swiping $850 in goods from Lululemon and Sephora.
Emely Yanagida, 35, was arrested for shoplifting at Irvine Spectrum Center, stealing $600 worth of make-up and $250 in workout gear.
The Irvine Police Department released footage on Saturday which showed officers discover her bizarre hideout - as she hid under a bright green tarp in her Tesla's trunk.
The incident occurred on Wednesday when loss prevention officers at the Sephora alerted police to a shoplifting suspect who had fled the store.
Irvine police shared the footage on Facebook, captioning it 'Peek-a-Boo' with hashtags #dontcommitcrimeinirvine.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Even Tesla owners are getting on the action, getting in on these invitations to steal free stuff, from Lululemon especially.
California serial thief is found guilty of stealing more than $60,000 in Target goods by using self-checkout
Aziza Graves, 43, was convicted of grand theft and 53 counts of petty theft
She faces a possible sentence of three and a half years in prison
By Ruth Bashinsky For Dailymail.Com
Published: 14:26 EDT, 7 May 2024
A serial thief from San Francisco has been found guilty of stealing more than $60,000 in merchandise at the self-checkout after hitting a Target store 120 times.
Aziza Graves, 43, was convicted of felony and grand theft and 53 misdemeanor counts of petty theft on Friday after she stole over a 13-month period - starting October 3, 2020 and ending November 16, 2021 - from the Target store in the Stonestown Galleria, a shopping mall located North of San Francisco State University.
Graves’ trickery involved bringing goods to the self-checkout counter, scanning them and then inserting ‘a single coin or bill’ into the machine before exiting the store, the District Attorney’s office said.
Officers with the San Francisco Police Department said they watched Graves leave the Target store twice after carrying out her scheme. She was later seen selling the stolen goods at the city’s UN Plaza, KDVR News reported.
After her November 2021 arrest, San Francisco Police Department Chief Bill Scott called her a ‘particularly brazen and prolific retail theft offender.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13392335/California-serial-thief-guilty-stealing-Target-self-checkout.html
Where did she steal the Tesla ?
Aren't they just giving them away now?
Reminds me of the joke about a Tesla owner who tried to kill himself in the garage by leaving the engine running…
That’s less than 950,so has she been released yet?
Emely is NOT GUILTY, at least from the blurred face down.
Goodness!
tales from the annals of wokeness
Where did she steal the Tesla ?
Aren’t they just giving them away now?
Parking lots everywhere are filling up with unsold Teslas ,LOL
stealing $850 is still under California’s $950 theft allowance for receiving little more than a traffic ticket. That many or most recipients ignore or flush down their toilets with effective impunity anyway.
She had little real need to hide from the police.
It looks like they caught her for 850 but she is then being held for 60k+++ of previous work.
Should have let her bake
OH I see. she’s being held for per previous $60,000 of thefts.
Thanks for the info.
I guess that just getting a job, being responsible for yourself (assuming one is medically capable, of course), and honesty/integrity are no longer moral values in Amerika
the only way to commit suicide in the garage with a tesla is to toss salt water on the battery and wait. for the thief lady hiding in her trunk...where is a tesla fire when you need one?
Orange County use to be nice about 40 years ago...Now they’re armed robberies, shootings and murders at Newport Fashion Island mall, typical gypsies stealing everything that isn’t bolted down in Irvine, dangerous pursuits on and on....
Seems like a majority of shoplifters are females. So much for the holy sanctity of the XX estrogens.
Irvine Spectrum is ground zero for retail thefts in Orange County. Lots of stores and easy access to the 405, 5, and 133 freeways.
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