SF News Oakland Man Arrested in Alleged $137,000 Stolen Cigarette Fencing Operation Cartons upon cartons of stolen cigarettes were being sold in East Bay convenience stores, as the California Highway Patrol just learned in busting up a fencing operation with well over $100,000 in stolen cigarettes.
SF News Multiple Data Sources Say Retail Theft Is Declining In San Francisco SFPD is hailing it as proof that their crackdown is working that both internal and external data show a decline in San Francisco retail theft, though it’s not yet a long-term trend, and the findings could just be statistical noise.
SF News Vallejo Police Publish Photos of Unmasked, 'Smiling' Assailants Sought In Theft of $12K In Levi's Jeans A case of organized retail theft in Vallejo over the holiday weekend left investigators with some pretty clear photographic evidence, but they still need the public's help in identifying the assailants.
SF News CHP Busts Huge Retail Theft Ring In East Bay, Seizes $350K In Stolen Goods The California Highway Patrol's Organized Retail Crime Task Force made a major bust last week of a fencing operation for stolen retail merchandise — the kinds of stuff taken in brazen robberies at Walgreens stores, Target, and the like.