Organized Retail Crime (ORC)

Las Vegas poker player Lazaro Hernandez has been exposed as the mastermind behind a $230 million counterfeit prescription medication operation.

3 Members of ORC Ring Charged with More Than 50 Felonies | Minneapolis Employee Stabbed After Attempting to Stop Shoplifter | LA County Deputy Unknowingly Walks into Convenience Store Robbery

Bill Targeting Retail Theft Passes Florida House Committee | Retailers Battle an Onslaught of Fraudulent Returns | Why Retail's $100B Shrink Crisis May Not Be All About Shoplifting

4 Suspects in Washington Organized Retail Thefts Plead Not Guilty | Customer Shot and Killed During Texas Convenience Store Robbery | Tampa Bay Area Retail Theft Ring Busted

To give you a better feel for the vast impact of the ORC problem, here are just a few of the incidents that took place in the month of December.

Police Seek Suspects in Slaying of Chicago Shopping Center Security Guard | Oregon Laws Targeting Retail Theft Go into Effect in January | Inside the Mindset of a Brazen Shoplifter

California's ORC Task Force Made Over 1,000 Arrests in 11 Months | Target's Reasons for Closing 9 Stores Questioned | Serial Shoplifter Arrested Then Released on $500 Bail Despite Multiple Warrants

37 Arrested in Portland Retail Theft Incident | $2 Trillion Worth of Counterfeit Products Are Sold Each Year—Can AI Help Put an End to it? | 2 Men Fleeing a Store Robbery Lead to a Fatal Car Accident

The defendants allegedly burglarized more than 40 marijuana dispensaries, resulting in the theft of approximately $780,000 in cash and property.

Remembering the Security Guard Killed in a Philadelphia Macy's | Sacramento County Sheriff Makes 285 Arrests in Week-Long Undercover Retail Sting | Father of Man Killed at Target Store Sues Retailer Over Death