Tag: retail theft
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Retail theft suspects escape Colorado Springs police Tuesday night
Two retail theft suspects avoided arrest by Colorado Springs police Tuesday night after being tracked between multiple stores. According to a police blotter entry, officers received a call around 7:30 p.m. that a known “prolific” retail crime offender was in the Home Depot at 7120 N. Academy Blvd. The suspect drove away before police arrived.…
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Man with over 20 years of criminal convictions arrested in Colorado Springs
A 66-year-old man with an extensive criminal past is facing another set of charges after Colorado Springs police connected him to car and retail theft, court documents show. Steven Smith, who authorities called a “prolific criminal offender,” was arrested in Colorado Springs last Wednesday, according to a blotter entry from the Colorado Springs Police Department.…
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EDITORIAL: Retail theft robs all Coloradans
Colorado shoppers are accustomed to it: You’re checking out as another “customer” walks by. With stolen items, they sidestep security personnel and cameras. Business carries on as usual; like a breeze, the shoplifters slip out the automatic sliding doors as you pony up to cover the pass-the-buck prices caused by the very crime you just…
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Colorado Springs police arrest 12-year-old and 15-year-old for alleged motor vehicle theft
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the latest in a string of such announcements, the Colorado Springs Police Department issued notice on its police blotter about the arrest of a 15-year-old male and a 12-year-old male yesterday as suspected of having committed motor vehicle theft. The arrests were triggered by…
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Colorado Springs police arrest 12-year-old and 15-year-old for alleged motor vehicle theft
In the latest in a string of such announcements, the Colorado Springs Police Department issued notice on its police blotter about the arrest of a 15-year-old male and a 12-year-old male yesterday as suspected of having committed motor vehicle theft. The arrests were triggered by a special unit of the police department that began work…
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Stealing more than $100 worth of goods, or dining-and-dashing, results in Aurora jail time
Aurora adopted harsher penalties for theft in the city, a move that supporters said will help reduce theft and one that opponents said will cost the city more in incarceration costs for a strategy that isn’t effective. Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky brought forward two ordinances at Monday night’s council meeting that add to the original ordinance…
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Aurora City Council debates harsher punishment for retail theft
The Aurora City Council agreed to move forward with two ordinances Monday night that would broaden the city’s mandatory minimum sentence for retail theft ordinance that passed last year. Both ordinances were put forward by Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky and would add to the original ordinance passed in 2023, which set a three-day minimum mandatory jail…