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A supermarket in New York City is protecting $6 ice cream cartons with bolted plastic tops to prevent shoplifters from stealing them this summer, the New York Post reported.

The California State Senate passed a bill last week that would prevent employers from requiring employees to intervene to stop shoplifting — a growing scourge in the state since the enactment of criminal justice reforms.

A woman has been arrested after two young children were left in a car that caught fire while she was allegedly shoplifting in Oviedo, Florida, on May 26.

Three Venezuelan nationals have been charged with a series of crimes after having recently arrived, potentially on migrant buses, in the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois. 

Two Big Lots managers in a town outside Bakersfield, California, were fired after following an alleged shoplifter out of the store into the store’s parking lot.

A San Francisco Target store has put its merchandise on lockdown as the city remains unable to curb its shoplifting crisis.

A mere 327 people have been arrested for shoplifting an astounding 6,000 times and account for more than a third of shoplifting arrests.

An employee was attacked recently when he tried to stop two alleged shoplifters at a store in a Bronx neighborhood.

An 83-year-old Home Depot employee died Thursday at a North Carolina hospital after reportedly being pushed by an alleged shoplifter six weeks prior.

A female shoplifter and a male security guard are both dead following a shootout at an Oxon Hill, Maryland, Giant grocery store on Friday morning.

A coalition of mainly Latino supermarket owners in New York City are reportedly showing support for Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin after having endured rampant shoplifting.

Police in Roseville, Michigan, say they have identified a man who entered a Costco Wholesale store and stole approximately $1,100 worth of king crab legs.

A woman with 12 shoplifting convictions has been accused of doing the same thing 18 more times in Chicago, prosecutors said Friday.

The soft-on-crime policies in San Francisco are leading to serial offenders getting back on the streets to commit more crimes.

Police should use “discretion” when deciding to prosecute shoplifting in Britain due to the cost of living crisis, a police watchdog argued.

Three individuals appeared to snatch items from a shelf inside a San Francisco-area Walgreens as customers watched, Fox News reported Tuesday.

A woman who admitted she attempted to shoplift fabric softener from a New York City Duane Reade claims she was “manhandled” by a security guard after she forked over the product and tried to exit the store, according to a report.

A day after thieves nabbed items valued at $35,000 from Burberry on Michigan Avenue, a similar incident happened at Gucci on Friday, police said, adding that the group fled in a stolen car.

An unidentified person at a San Francisco Walgreens filmed a man shoplifting while customers and employees watched.

A recent incident at a Walgreens in San Francisco recorded workers standing helpless while someone apparently dumped items into a bag.

A California sheriff’s department released footage of a deputy-involved shooting at a Walmart after a subject allegedly reached for a gun.

Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) defended 12 suspects arrested by the New York Police Department (NYPD) for shoplifting, blaming their alleged crimes on the end of the child tax credit, despite the suspects’ lengthy criminal histories.

The NYPD is searching for a man they say punched a 21-year-old woman in the face while he shoplifted from a Manhattan Duane Reade Friday morning.

A homeless man has been charged with burglary for attempting to walk away with a flat-screen television he saw in a downtown Seattle Target store.

A career criminal, with a rap sheet dating back to the 1980s, has been freed from jail for the fourth time in six months after he stole a $750 70-inch television at a Target store in Seattle, Washington.

Apparent shoplifters seem unconcerned about being arrested and one recently spoke to the New York Post after ransacking a drug store in Manhattan.

Delaware State Rep. Gerald Brady (D) has been arrested for shoplifting nearly six months after he was publicly embarrassed over a racist comment he made in an email.

Actor Michael Rapaport filmed a brazen theft in broad daylight at a Rite Aid in New York’s Upper Eastside as a security guard looked on.

A Safeway in San Francisco’s Castro District is taking the law in its own hands by fortifying the outlet to reduce the surge in shoplifting.

Openly socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been getting blasted for attempting to downplay the smash-and-grab crimewave that has been destroying retail outlets in recent months.

A Walgreens in San Francisco’s Noe Valley area was temporarily shut down recently due to a “severe rat infestation,” SF Gate reported Friday.

Video captured the moment a group of suspects allegedly stole $1,600 worth of laundry detergent and other goods from a Connecticut grocery store.

Thieves have repeatedly targeted retailers on and near the Magnificent Mile and Chicago police recently shared video footage of another alleged crime.

The ongoing shoplifting surge has forced Walgreens to close five more San Francisco stores as law enforcement continues to do next to nothing

A 22-year-old New York City man has been arrested 57 times this year, including a stabbing, while 46 of the arrests stem from retail thefts.

Video of alleged shoplifters taking thousands of dollars worth of electrical wire from a Lowe’s in Oregon has frustrated residents, according to Fox News.