Original Blog Entry: Thieves Leave Real Names At Store Before Heist

truesee — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:43:51 GMT

Jun 17, 2009 5:24 pm US/Mountain

Thieves Leave Real Names At Store Before Heist

Reporting

Terry Jessup

LONE TREE, Colo. (CBS4) ?

the thieves left their Real names, phone numbers, addresses and e-mail addresses on a card they filled out before they filled their basket. CBS

The crime can be reviewed and critiqued since it was all captured on the store's security cameras.

CBS

The Lone Tree police are scratching their heads over a bungled shoplifting at a consignment store. It wasn't the crime of the century, but it has to rank right up there on the stupidity meter.

Plato's Closet south of Park Meadows Mall is a popular discount store, but two young women who showed up Tuesday night must have thought consignment meant free. The women walked into the store about 6:30 p.m., picked out several hundred dollars worth of clothes, originally costing close to $1,000, and loaded them into a basket.

At the end, they took off right out the door, said Patty Eaton, Plato's Closet Owner. There was a car waiting, and (they) took our merchandise.

It was a common enough shoplift, but in this case Eaton said the culprits left something behind.

They left their name, phone number, address, e-mail address, Eaton said.

Not fake names -- their real ones on a card they filled out before they filled their basket.

They're not stupid criminals, they're teenagers, Eaton said. That's really what it is. They didn't think the process out at all.

It can be reviewed and critiqued since it was all captured on the store's security cameras.

The girls also made another tactical error. They apparently didn't know 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, 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.

Because it's a clothing store, and kids think they're invincible, you will get caught, Eaton said.

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