Tale of Woe

Thieves leave contact info before stealing merchandise

Apparently never heard of security cameras.

Two young women at Plato’s Closet, a clothing consignment store in loaded up hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise in their cart, and left with the merchandise without paying. They left with the stolen items in a waiting car.

This kind of shoplifting, by itself, would not be all that unusual today.

What was unusual was that the thieves filled out registration cards before leaving the store with the stolen goods. And no, they did not leave fake information, but used their actual names and contact information.

This is known because the store’s security cameras caught the whole thing on tape.

One other thing the girls apparently didn’t notice is that the Lone Tree Police Department is almost directly across the street.

“The police are one block over, so they were here as soon as we called them — within minutes,” [store owner Patty] Eaton said. “Because of the information that they left for us, they were on the phone talking with the two individuals immediately because they did answer their phone.”

The Lone Tree police told the women to bring the merchandise back. Eaton said that hasn’t happened and she will press charges. There is now a warrant out for their arrest.

Source: cbs4denver.com