Posted on 10/12/2025 6:15:53 AM PDT by TigerClaws
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A man and two women from the Houston area have been arrested after the Texas Department of Public Safety says they stole $300,000 from Target stores in multiple states.
The thefts took place from February 2024 to September 2025, according to court documents.
Bernard Lane, the man prosecutors refer to as the ringleader of the group, has been charged 70 times in Harris County for things like evading arrest, assault, and DWI.
By 2024, he'd been convicted three dozen times. And yet that same year, when he was arrested for allegedly choking and threatening to kill an ex-girlfriend, court documents show a magistrate allowed him to bond out of jail for $1.
The ex-girlfriend referred to in court documents is Shalondra Gilbert, one of the women charged in connection with the Target theft ring.
It's unclear what relationship Lane has with his other accused accomplice, Alicia Morris. However, court records show they share the same Spring address.
The Target thefts weren't limited to the Houston area, prosecutors say.
Charging documents from Overland Park, Kansas, show Lane was arrested there for stealing from a Target in July.
After bonding out, Kansas prosecutors say he and Morris stole from three more Targets in Georgia and Alabama on back-to-back days in August. Those thefts totaled $2,000.
The pair stole from four stores in Harris County in September, prosecutors say.
All three suspects are being held in the Harris County Jail.
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BREAKING: Ringleader of massive theft ring, Bernard Lane, ARRESTED in Texas after stealing $300k from Target.
He has nearly SEVENTY prior arrests, and THREE DOZEN convictions.
He was out of jail on a ONE DOLLAR BOND after allegedly choking and threatening to kiII someone.
Another failure of the legal system.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1977176526274658332
By allowing these criminals free rein to steal in Houston, what kind of kickback does the Demonicrat-controlled judicial system in Houston get?
“”By allowing these criminals free rein to steal in Houston, what kind of kickback does the Demonicrat-controlled judicial system in Houston get?””
They don’t need kickbacks. They’re so wokely stupid that they do it for the attaboys and the pats on the head by the radical left Democrats in DC.
You have woke, stupid white women babykillers mixed with blacks ‘reparations’ gimme dat and the system is designed to CREATE failure.
Failure means the normies (anyone who may vote against Democrats because they are thinking, taxpayer citizens) leaves. Dems get total control.
Criminals are the Brownshirts of the Democrat party.
That's his driver's license photo.
Also, why am I not surprised? We've created an entire demographic of criminally insane, entitlement minded parasites that goes back to LBJ's corruption and incompetence.
They cannot be fixed.
Target’s woke leadership probably supported letting this guy out of jail 50 times.
Evidently this sort of behavior has become quite ordinary. Youtube is groaning under the bandwidth of blacks behaving badly at stores and restaurants — blatant theft, grappling with employees and customers, throwing furniture, running from police, shrieking and gibbering like rabid macaques.
You didn’t need to show mugshot . I was going to ask Yogi who it was!
Nothing will happen to the scum. Just takin’ what their owed, reparations don’t ya know.
Good, Target deserves it. Hope Target enjoys the “thank you” from there chosen demographic.
“”You have woke, stupid white women babykillers mixed with blacks ‘reparations’ gimme dat and the system is designed to CREATE failure.
Failure means the normies (anyone who may vote against Democrats because they are thinking, taxpayer citizens) leaves. Dems get total control.
Criminals are the Brownshirts of the Democrat party.””
Yes, that is the Democrat system in a nutshell. Designed to fail, never to succeed... because the Democrats, America’s enemy within, are working for their anti-America comrades and globalist masters, America’s enemy without.... and have been for a generation or longer.
And yes, the radleft trashes every city they get control of and power over and proceed to turn it into 3rd world s-holes... just as Houston has become. I once loved living in Houston but alas, I will never go back... considering what it has now been ‘fundamentally transformed’ into.
As for criminals being the Brownshirts of the rat party, that has been true also for a generation or longer. I can recall when they used union thugs (also criminals) as their ‘jackboot thugs army’.
Exactly.
Well, if he were in California, this would be OK - as long as he kept his shoplifting to under $950/day per day:
“Shoplifting in California is typically charged as a misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in county jail, a fine of up to $1,000, or both.”
Newsom opposed Prop 36 which passed - and toughens shoplifting penalties:
“Governor Gavin Newsom has refused to allocate new state funding for its implementation, creating significant tension over the law’s execution.”
We gotta build more jails and fill them. Period.
Just another reason not to shop at Target.
“That’s his driver’s license photo.”
What is your point for posting nonsense?
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