Suspected Retail Crime Ring Member Arrested After Auburn Target Theft

AUBURN (CBS13) — A antheral suspected of being a portion of an organized retail theft transgression ringing has been arrested aft a pursuit successful Auburn connected implicit the weekend.

The Placer County Sheriff’s Office says, aboriginal Sunday evening, an worker astatine the Auburn Target store reported that idiosyncratic had stolen respective high-value items.

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As captured connected surveillance cameras, the fishy filled a container afloat of babe look cans and past walked retired of the store without paying.

Deputies managed to get to the country arsenic the fishy was conscionable getting into his SUV. The fishy took off, however, and sparked a pursuit on westbound Interstate 80.

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Eventually, the fishy deed immoderate spike strips that were enactment down astatine Penryn Road and his SUV was stopped. The fishy past got retired and ran, but deputies rapidly took him into custody.

The fishy has been identified arsenic 30-year-old Dylan Norman Lovitt.

Deputies recovered dozens of cans of stolen Enfamil babe look worthy astir $850, but Target officials says they judge Lovitt was besides a portion of an organized retail theft transgression ringing that has stolen much than $33,000 worthy of merchants from their stores.

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Lovitt has been booked into Auburn Jail facing galore charges of organized retail theft, nonaccomplishment to output to a bid officer, and resisting arrest.

CBS13 Staff