Jewelry, Perfume and Medicine, top items to grab
By Dan Murphy
One of the arguments against taxing corporations is that they will pass the cost onto the consumer. The same can be said for retail establishments who have fallen victim to rampant and large scale shoplifting, or larceny or robbery. One of our readers emailed me to say that my referencing the recent $2,500 in perfume stolen from the Macy’s at Cross County Center in Yonkers as a robbery was incorrect, because of the dollar amount involved. The proper characterization is a grand larceny, and that person is correct.
But there has to be a better term for an organized group of people stealing all that they can hold, or put into a bag, and running out. Shoplifting to me was stealing a candy bar when you were a kid.
Thousand dollar thefts, from pharmacies in Yonkers have been going on for more than six months, and at two Yonkers supermarkets, ACME and Stop n Shop, off duty police have been hired to make sure these type of walk out larcenies don’t happen under their watch. Yonkers Rising columnist Eric Schoen has witnessed two incidents in Yonkers; one at a TJ Maxx and the other at a CVS.
Now these types of thefts are occurring further north in Westchester, according to the State Police. “The State Police in Cortlandt is investigating a larceny of over $3,900 worth of over-the-counter medications from the ACME Supermarket on East Main Street in Mohegan Lake. The suspects also attempted to steal medication from the ACME Supermarket in Yorktown but were interrupted before fleeing in a red or maroon four door sedan.”
Other suspects taken from surveilance at the ACME are pictured below. All photos from the NYS Police
Anyone with information regarding the identity or location of the pictured subjects is asked to please contact the New York State Police at (914) 769-2600. Please refer to case #10805806.
