$1 million in cash in a downtown L.A. bodega: Inside the crackdown on retail theft ‘fences’ Pedestrians walk past Big Apple in Los Angeles last week.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Retail theft drew major headlines across California last year, as a statewide voter initiative targeting the issue took center stage. That initiative — Proposition 36 — ...

Prop. 47, passed in 2014, has been fingered for much of the upswing in retail-related crime over more than a decade, as it set the felony threshold for most types of retail theft at $950 or more ...

Reported retail theft rose 32% from 2021 to 2023, with shoplifting increasing approximately 29% between 2019 and 2022. Commercial burglary rose 16% and robbery increased 13% during the same period.

CALIFORNIA, USA — The California Highway Patrol (CHP) joined forces with more than 100 law enforcement agencies and major retailers for a multi-day National Organized Retail Crime Blitz ...

A woman was arrested after more than $1 million in stolen cosmetics from stores like CVS, Sephora and Ulta Beauty were seized as part of a major retail theft bust by the California Highway Patrol.