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<p>PRINCETON BOROUGH - To the Princeton University Store, a surge in shoplifting arrests during the past few months is the result of a business move: a new, cutting-edge surveillance camera system.</p> <p>To the police, the dozen arrests they've made at the campus shop are the product of good investigative work by highly motivated security officers.</p>

'Boosting' arrives in Triad malls 3-23-04 By Russ Rizzo Staff Writer News & Record GREENSBORO -- A national epidemic known as "boosting" has reached the Triad, and investigators think they have just scratched the surface of its devastation for retailers. Boosting, or organized shoplifting, is blamed for a significant portion of the more than $10 billion in merchandise stolen from the nation's retail stores each year. It involves skilled and organized groups of thieves who work together to lift thousands of dollars in goods at a single take. That's what police believe is behind the $40,000 in stolen merchandise officers...

<p>High-profile shoplifting cases like Winona Ryder's Beverly Hills shopping spree last year and local cases of security guard assaults on suspected shoplifters give the impression that retail theft is an outside job.</p> <p>But a recent survey shows retailers lose more inventory from insiders -- employees -- than they do from shoplifters.</p>

Best-dressed honoree charged with shopliftingHighland Park woman was featured in 2002 'Vogue' profile of Dallas 07:04 AM CDT on Friday, September 26, 2003By JENNIFER EMILY / The Dallas Morning News A Highland Park woman named best dressed by Vogue magazine last year has been arrested on charges of shoplifting nearly $2,000 worth of merchandise from Neiman Marcus at NorthPark Center, police said. Brooke Stollenwerck Aldridge, 48, was arrested on the evening of Sept. 15 and released from the Dallas County jail just after midnight, jail records show. She could not be reached for comment Thursday. Ms. Aldridge, who was named...

<p>A civil-service board Wednesday upheld the firing of a former Alexandria police officer who shot at a suspected shoplifter and two children at the Alexandria Mall.</p> <p>The officer's attorney, Michael Brewer, intends to appeal the decision to the 9th Judicial District Court.</p>

Stores brace for increase in shoplifting By Jessica Lowell Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE – Not everything that leaves stores in Cheyenne this holiday season will be paid for. Just as store managers see more shoppers at this time of year, they also see more shoplifters. “People think they are less likely to get caught,” JCPenney store manager Wally St. Clair said, partly due to the crowds that flock to stores for holiday shopping at the end of the year. “If you are going to get up to 30 percent of your yearly business in the fourth quarter, you...

“The Director Made Me Do It”: The “Winona” Defense By Henry Mark Holzer FrontPageMagazine.com | November 15, 2002 Criminal defense lawyers are constantly trying to find new ways to acquit their clients. Remember the "twinkies" defense, when a criminal defendant claimed he killed because the confection’s ingredients affected his mind? In the just-concluded Winona Ryder trial, her lawyer propounded yet another spurious defense. The jury didn’t buy it. Ryder was charged with three crimes: burglary, vandalism, and felony grand theft (the latter sometimes euphemistically called "shoplifting"), for helping herself to over five- thousand dollars’ worth of designer-expensive clothes and accessories...

<p>BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Winona Ryder was observed three times by security at stores in New York and Beverly Hills and videotaped twice in suspected shoplifting incidents before her arrest at Saks Fifth Avenue, according to secret court transcripts released Friday.</p>

True kleptomaniacs are hard to find Stanford seeks 24 for study of the rare illness Katherine Seligman, Chronicle Staff Writer Thursday, November 7, 2002 ©2002 San Francisco Chronicle. URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/11/07/MN186779.DTL We're entering the stealing season, but things are off to a slow start for researchers at Stanford University who are conducting a study on kleptomaniacs. It seems that people who steal impulsively are reluctant to stand up and be counted, even in a laboratory setting. Still, psychiatrists at Stanford are embarking on the first controlled study looking at whether a drug approved for treatment of depression will work for kleptomania,...

BEVERLY HILLS (Reuters) - The jury charged with deciding whether actress Winona Ryder was guilty of shoplifting in Beverly Hills ended its first day of deliberations on Tuesday without reaching a verdict. The six-man, six-woman jury -- several of whom work in the entertainment industry, including an ex-studio head -- spent the day deliberating after an extraordinary six-day trial which featured Ryder's videotaped trip to the posh Saks Fifth Avenue store last December but never heard from the actress, herself. Ryder, 31, arrived early at the Beverly Hills court on Tuesday dressed in dark pants and looking pale and tense....

Winona Ryder’s Bum Rap Actress targeted by zealous prosecutors.Facing a trial in less than a week, movie actress Winona Ryder is trying to overcome ten months of unrelenting media scrutiny and public humiliation, all of it operating on the assumption that she is guilty of shoplifting charges. Maybe she did steal some clothes and a few purses, and maybe she didn't. But that's become irrelevant. In a town infamous for granting celebrities free passes, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office has pursued its case against the actress with a tenacity typically reserved for high-profile murderers. Stung by a long string...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A daughter of Muhammad Ali was arrested on a charge of trying to shoplift bedding from a store in Rossford, Ohio, last week. Hana Yasmeen Ali, 26, of Berrien Springs, Mich., was scheduled to appear in Perrysburg Municipal Court on Wednesday on a misdemeanor charge of attempted theft. She identified herself as Ali's daughter when she was arrested, officer Craig Revill said. Employees at the store, Linens & Things, also reported that she tried to tamper with a price tag on a $69.99 picture frame. Ali, one of nine children of the former heavyweight boxing champ,...

<p>Hana Yasmeen Ali, 26, of Berrien Springs, Mich., is identified in a Rossford police report as the woman accused of trying to shoplift bedding items Thursday from Linens & Things in the Crossroads Centre on U.S. 20.</p> <p>A daughter of boxing legend Muhammad Ali has a scheduled appearance in Perrysburg tomorrow - in front of a judge.</p>

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Reuters) - Lawyers for actress Winona Ryder, who is accused of shoplifting from Saks Fifth Avenue, met with prosecutors and a judge on Friday behind closed doors amid speculation that a plea deal was in the works to settle the high-profile case. Participants in the hastily arranged meeting were not immediately available for comment. A spokeswoman for the District Attorney's office said that plea negotiations had been ongoing for some time but did not know if that was the subject of the hearing in the chambers of Superior Court Judge Elden Fox. Spokeswoman Jane Robison said her...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Reuters) - A Beverly Hills judge on Tuesday delayed setting a trial date for Oscar nominated actress Winona Ryder, who is accused of shoplifting $6,000 worth of goods from the Saks Fifth Avenue department store last December. Instead of setting a date for trial, as had been expected, Superior Court Judge Elden S. Fox set an Aug. 26 date for pretrial motions on what evidence could be admitted during the eventual trial. Fox said he would set a trial date within 30 days of that hearing. Ryder, 30, the star of the 1999 film, "Girl, Interrupted," has...

Newsweek: The District Attorney's Office Has Evidence That Purportedly Shows Previous Shoplifting Incidents by Ryder, Newsweek Has Learned -- Jokes on SNL in Poor Taste; 'Nobody Is Going to Write a Script for Them If They Get Caught Shoplifting' Says Top Star Story Filed: Sunday, June 09, 2002 10:07 AM EST NEW YORK, Jun 09, 2002 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The district attorney's office in Los Angeles has evidence that purportedly shows Dec. 12 wasn't actress Winona Ryder's first shoplifting incident (though she's never been charged before), Newsweek has learned. Ryder was arrested on Dec. 12 at an L.A....

Shoplifting charge forces Steine to withdraw from 5th District Congressional race By Skip Cauthorn In a surprising turn of events Friday, Metro Vice Mayor Ronnie Steine told The City Paper he was withdrawing from the 5th District Congressional race due to a shoplifting charge that occurred in December. Steine, who was the first to enter the race following Congressman Bob Clement’s decision to run for the U.S. Senate, called the arrest a “serious lapse in judgment.” “It was a self-inflicted wound and I wanted to get it out and make sure my family and friends weren’t hurt in the process,”...

According to those who have seen the whole tape, it looks like all they have is Yves Saint Laurent hats disappearing in the dressing room.I assume they were found on her person later.