Safeway...the new CIA?

[Turfgrass]

This doesn't exactly sound right somehow.


:0corn

On Nov. 19, Safeway security officials placed a tracking device on a van driven by the couple. Whenever the van was driven to a Safeway, surveillance videos were carefully scrutinized.

In the weeks following, Safeway officials created a spreadsheet of locations and thefts, which they presented to Portland police. The couple was arrested outside a Safeway store in Portland's Woodstock neighborhood.

http://www.nwcn.com/home/Couple-shoplifted-5-million-from-Portland-Safeway-stores-police-say.html

 

[Chadman]

So they knew and had video proof that the couple was stealing massive amounts of stuff, repeatedly, for at least 2-3 months, and they just "watched" them to build a case? I understand wanting to let them get up to a felony level, but this just seems weird - I agree.

Enter Lumi in 3,2,1... :tongue

 

[Lumi]

So they knew and had video proof that the couple was stealing massive amounts of stuff, repeatedly, for at least 2-3 months, and they just "watched" them to build a case? I understand wanting to let them get up to a felony level, but this just seems weird - I agree.

Enter Lumi in 3,2,1... :tongue

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The article is incomplete, were the "Locals" over loaded with other criminal activity in the area and the "Mall Cops" tasked to investigate?

Taking the investigation outside the boundaries of the Safeway certainly seems to beyond their scope. :shrug:

Kind of like the US Military conducting DUI check Points on Us Highways?