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Dillard's Security Camera Operators Aid in Three Arrests

The following information was supplied by the Fairlawn Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

Security camera operators at Dillard’s at aided in the arrest of three shoplifters during a two-day period before Christmas, according to reports.

  • On Dec. 19 at 3:02 p.m. a camera operator watched as an Akron woman, 18, selected two pairs of Levi jeans with a combined value of $102 from a display rack and took them into the men’s fitting room. When she left the room, she no longer appeared to have the jeans. A sales associate checked the room for the jeans, but found only their sales tags. Security notified a officer who was working off-duty uniformed security at the store. He stopped the woman as she was entering the mall concourse. He recovered the jeans from a backpack the woman was carrying. She was arrested, admitted to the theft, issued a court summons for misdemeanor theft and released. She was banned from Dillard’s.
  • A Dillard’s security agent called police at 9:44 a.m. Dec. 20 after watching a customer in the men’s cologne department select a box from a display, conceal it in his jacket pocket, then leave the store into the mall concourse. Two Fairlawn officers located the Akron man, 47, in a nearby store. The man admitted to taking the Bvlgari cologne valued at $59 and retrieved it from his pocket. He was arrested and given a court summons for misdemeanor theft. The man was taken to the Fairlawn Police Department and later released to the Akron Police Department, which had an active warrant for his arrest.
  • At 12:35 p.m. Dec. 20, a camera operator saw a woman conceal a pair of jeans valued at $84 in her purse while shopping in the children’s department. He notified a Fairlawn police officer who was working uniformed security at the store. As the officer was heading to the children’s department, the security agent notified him the woman had also concealed a black sweater valued at $29.99 in a shopping bag she was carrying. The officer stopped the woman and advised her she was seen concealing items, but she said the only thing in her bag was a pair of Ugg shoes she purchased for her daughter. The officer found the jeans in her purse and the sweater in her bag. The Akron woman, 30, was arrested, processed in a police car and released with a court summons for theft without consent, a misdemeanor. She was banned from Dillard’s.
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