shoplifting
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Federal judge rules Circle K could fire 72-year-old store clerk who tried to stop robber
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A federal judge ruled last month that Circle K lawfully fired a 72-year-old convenience store cashier after she attempted to stop a knife-wielding robber from stealing cigarettes. Mary Ann Moreno was a 16-year employee of the company and was behind the register at a Westminster Circle K store when a man holding two hunting knives…
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Appeals court rejects Safeway’s attempt to deny workers’ comp to 82-year-old employee
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Colorado’s second-highest court last month rejected Safeway’s attempt to deny workers’ compensation benefits to an 82-year-old employee who injured herself while trying to stop a shoplifter. While she was cleaning the entryway of a store, Janice Sewald observed a customer leaving without paying and she reached for his cart. She was pulled to the floor…
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Federal judge denies immunity to Aurora officer in man’s series of store security lawsuits
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A federal judge has declined to grant immunity to an Aurora officer who allegedly detained a man and seized his property unlawfully, one of numerous lawsuits William Montgomery has filed in a long-running “sting” operation involving retail security personnel. Montgomery’s litigation stems from a series of encounters with roughly the same pattern: He enters a…
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Appeals court overturns conviction after video evidence contradicted security guard’s testimony
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Store surveillance footage directly contradicted testimony that a man used force in his attempt to rob a Weld County supermarket, prompting the state’s second-highest court to overturn his conviction. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals determined that witness testimony cannot sustain a conviction when undisputed video evidence invalidates what the witness said. As…
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… And speaking of public safety in Pueblo: It now will send its shoplifters straight to jail. In Castle Rock.
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They can’t say they weren’t warned. Puebloans who help themselves to a five-finger discount at local shops at last will face swift justice following a decision by the Pueblo City Council Monday to lock up the city’s proliferating shoplifters. Justice probably would come even more swiftly if the miscreants didn’t first have to make the…
