Person detained for suspected shoplifting at mall stores, Jersey City NJ


Security detained a person suspected of shoplifting from H&M at Newport Mall. This individual was previously involved in a shoplifting incident at Target. Police were called to the scene.
Audio|Source: Jersey City Police
02:30
Transcript:
00:00
East two, yeah,
00:05
While out the mall, I'm trying to grab something, you know, we ran into a possible actor from target, security was chasing them to the outside, they believed that you may just go so from H&M, you could just have the lieutenant response over it.
00:22
Just leave that, East Lieutenant.
00:29
Lieutenant, what do you have? The E's two cars off at the mall, they were grabbing something, EVE, they came in contact with a possible actor from a shoplist and Target security was in pursuit of them.
00:46
They're there, they're requesting your presence.
00:53
All right, do they have the possible actor and the security guard?
01:00
Yeah, that's correct, boss.
01:02
But the security guard here is stating that he's not sure if he actually took some out of H&M when he was walking out and the machine had beeped and he had sent to follow him and he didn't stop.
01:16
All right, where are you?
01:22
Newport, right by big scoring, guys.
01:27
Yeah, it's going to be the west entrance.
01:33
All right, it's going to take me a few in traffic that you down there.
01:36
So you have the security guard, you have the possible actor, and just to clarify, this is not in reference to the previous one, correct?
01:51
Okay boss, it's going to be the same hack that we had from the robbery at Target earlier.
01:59
All right, yeah, that's what I was getting at.
02:02
All right, do we have a target security over there, or is this something different?
02:08
No, something different.
02:11
The city walked out of H&M and the metal detector beeped.
02:14
So the Newport security was following for that reason.
02:17
But he's going to be the same actor from the target.
02:20
Target security is now.
02:26
All right, I'll be around.
02:28
Give me a few.
02:29
Josh, I'm going to give you a call.
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Location mentioned:
Near Mall Dr W, Jersey City, NJ 07310
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