NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio –
Petty theft: Lorain Road
Dollar General store employees helped nab a pair of shoplifting suspects on Jan. 11 by quickly sharing information online between stores.
As police were responding to the North Olmsted Dollar General on Lorain Road near Stearns Road at 2:47 p.m. regarding two suspected female shoplifters who ran out of the store with two laundry baskets full of merchandise, they received a call from a store employee telling them the suspects were now inside the nearby North Ridgeville Dollar General store.
North Ridgeville police quickly had the pair of suspects in custody.
A North Olmsted store employee told police that after the two suspected shoplifters ran out of the store, the employee posted a photo of the suspects to a group chatroom for local Dollar General store managers. The manager from the nearby North Ridgeville Dollar General store responded that the two women were currently in the North Ridgeville store. She then called North Ridgeville police, who recovered the suspected stolen merchandise from the women’s vehicle. The merchandise was valued at nearly $460.
North Olmsted police charged the women with petty theft, but their problems didn’t end there. The car the women arrived in was illegally parked in a handicapped spot in front of the North Ridgeville store, so North Ridgeville police ordered the car towed and impounded, according to the North Olmsted police report.
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