Shoplifters Target Market District, Bath & Body Works In Solon

SOLON, OH — Two people tried to steal more than $137 from Bath & Body Works on Kruse Drive, police said. The assistant manager of the store called police, saying the two suspected thieves had left the store and were walking across the parking lot.

Officers arrived shortly thereafter and grabbed one of the suspects, a Cleveland woman, while she was walking on the sidewalk. Stolen merchandise was found in the woman's purse, police said.

The woman's companion, an East Cleveland man, wasn't in the parking lot near Bath & Body Works. Officers searched the area and found the man walking through Cleveland BMW and arrested him.

Both suspects are wanted by University Heights Police and the East Cleveland man is wanted by the Richland County Sheriffs Office. Solon Police are charging the woman with theft, possession of criminal tools and resisting arrest. The man is being charged with attempted theft.

A few days earlier, police had to investigate a different group of shoplifters. This time the assistant manager of Market District contact officers and said three people had stolen more than $500 in alcohol from the store.

The suspects — two women and a man — pulled off their theft by having the man distract the clerk while the women stuffed bottles of alcohol into their purses. The whole theft was caught on surveillance footage, police said.

The Solon Detective Bureau is investigating the case, police said.

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