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Ohio Pair Busted in $8K Black Friday Shoplifting Spree: Police

The alleged shoplifters used "booster bags" designed to defeat doorway security sensors.

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Two Akron, OH, women were busted on Black Friday for trying to to relieve the Victoria’s Secret store in the Somerset Collection mall in Troy of $800 worth of merchandise.

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The women, ages 20 and 29, removed security sensors from lingerie, then used aluminum-lined “booster bags” designed to defeat doorway security sensors, according to a report on WWJ.

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Store employees saw them and alerted police, who discovered nearly $8,000 in stolen merchandise from a number of businesses, police said.

The women are facing a number of retail fraud-related charges.

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Also Friday, two 17-year-old boys, one from Harper Woods and the other from Detroit, were caught shoplifting at Saks Fifth Avenue in Somerset Place. Mall security officers reportedly caught them trying of steal $295 worth of merchandise.

Both were arrested for retail fraud.

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