LOS ANGELES—Seal Beach Police Cpl. Dave Barr is being honored by the Los Angeles Area Organized Retail Crime Association as Law Enforcement Officer of the Year for his work that led to the arrest of a suspected ORC broker, notorious among law enforcement in the area.
BETHESDA, Md.—Capital One announced Feb. 12 that it closed two new transactions—one with Envysion, a managed-video-surveillance-as-a-service provider based in Louisville, Colo., and a separate $20 million deal with full-service security company Vyanet Security of Bend, Ore.
ARLINGTON, Va.—The estimated $30 billion of goods stolen by organized retail crime groups in the United States takes a toll on individual states in lost sales tax revenues.
ST. LOUIS—Interface Security Systems, based here, recently completed a $230 million bond deal and also secured a new $45 million revolver from Capital One.
DENVER—The laundry detergent Tide remains a hot commodity on the black market in Colorado.
Supermarkets there are losing millions of dollars due to organized retail thieves who shoplift massive amounts of Tide, according to a report from CBS4.
YARMOUTH, Maine—Bob Phibbs, also known as "The Retail Doctor," recently went into several major department stores and visited women's fitting rooms. There he stayed, for five minutes or so. He could have been stealing or he could have been another type of perpetrator.
