Crime & Safety
Old Navy Shoplifters Assault Worker, Customer: HoCo Police
A group turned violent when confronted about taking merchandise from a store at the Long Gate shopping center, police said.
ELLICOTT CITY, MD — Police said that shoplifters assaulted an employee and a customer at Old Navy over the weekend in Ellicott City. The suspects all got away, according to authorities.
An employee at the store had confronted three women and a man who were stealing merchandise from the store in the Long Gate Shopping Center at 4:19 p.m. on Saturday, April 20, police allege.
Officials said the suspects assaulted the worker and a customer who stepped in to help.
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The suspects got away from the store in the 4300 block of Montgomery Road with some merchandise, according to police.
Neither the employee nor the customer was injured.
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The investigation into the incident is ongoing. The suspects were described as being in their 20s.
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