Tag: organized theft

The adaptive, predictive, and networked behavior of dragonflies offers a striking parallel to how organized retail crime groups assess risk, communicate, and evolve—especially through tools like social media—to exploit weaknesses in retail systems.

Surveillance video nabs employee

Employee charged in $3,200 theft

What is 'formjacking?'

Thief has a 'layaway' plan

Shoplifting, gun, cocaine

New ORC legislation

Couple's $3K jewelry heist

Impersonating employees

Counterfeiters hit with $1.5M judgement

Burglary trio busted

Shoplifter punches LPA

Good retail jobs news

Another Apple store heist

ORC ring busted

Employee and b/f scam: $5K

Watch thief doing time

Police officer pays it forward

Employee takes $25K

Rutgers football players CC scam

Fraud fuel / CC bust nets 23

Employee under-rings $2K

Busted 3 for ORC / ID theft

AP team helps PD

Yeti coolers targeted

In-store audio monitoring

The ongoing presence of sophisticated criminal elements means that loss prevention's role in developing and managing security strategies along the supply chain will only continue to grow.

This post's findings are the result of more than thirty retail and law enforcement interviews expressly asking for opinions and thoughts on investigating ORC. It's from the archives, but its advice is timeless.

Lego ORC ring

Prison time for causing crash

Duo's shoplift, assault arrest

CC fraud: $179K

Counterfeit CC scheme $45K

Local store fights back

Cargo theft ring: 11 busted

Jewelry thief snagged

trying to out-run LP

Tazer Fail: twice

Prolific Pick-Pockets

Orbitz breach: 880K CC cards