Undercover Police Sting Thieves At East L.A. Nike Store, Arrest 10 In Ongoing Retail Crime War
deadline.comScore one for the good guys. In the ongoing battle against organized retail theft at Los Angeles County stores, police arrested 10 people during a two-day undercover operation at the Nike Community Store in East Los Angeles.
The arrests were made Thursday and Friday, and more than $3,000 of recovered merchandise was returned to Nike, according to the L.A.
County Sheriff’s Department. Detectives with an LASD burglary-robbery task force worked with the East Los Angeles Station Crime Enforcement Team, Summer Enforcement Team and Nike Loss Prevention on various surveillance operations “to apprehend suspects, deter criminal activity, and protect life and property at the Nike Community Store in East Los Angeles,” the department said.
Of those apprehended, four were for alleged felonies, according to the LASD. Two of the suspects had outstanding arrests warrants, one of which was a shoplifting warrant.
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