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WATCH — Police: California Man Steals $49K Worth of iPhones from Apple Store

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Police arrested a suspect Wednesday after a brazen theft inside an Apple Store in Berkeley, California, where shocked customers watched the scene unfold.

Detectives with the Emeryville Police Department took Tyler Mims into custody, Fox Business reported Thursday.

Video footage shows the suspect, wearing all black and a pair of red shoes, allegedly grabbing items inside the store and ripping their cords out of the display tables. The store’s alarm is heard, and people are seen watching from a distance.

However, no one appears to say anything to the suspect as he allegedly continues grabbing items and shoving them down the front of his pants:

He then exits the store and jogs past a police car before approaching another vehicle waiting outside:

Mims was charged with burglary, grand theft, and additional crimes regarding the incident that happened on Monday. The Fox report said the person who called for help said the suspect took 50 iPhones.

The bundle was valued at $49,230, the outlet continued, adding, “Since Jan. 19, the department has responded to four grand thefts from the Apple Store in town,” and police say they are part of organized retail crime.

It is important to note that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) recently said he was shocked to hear a Target worker blame him for the shoplifting plaguing the state, which erupted after it adopted criminal justice reforms he supported, Breitbart News reported on February 1.

Newsom relayed the incident during a Zoom call:

The outlet continued:

Newsom relayed a story of visiting Target and watching someone steal from the store. He expressed surprise that the clerk did not pursue the thief, only to be told that no one stopped shoplifters because the governor lowered the threshold for punishing thieves.

The governor, whom the clerk did not recognize, protested: “That’s just not true,” he said. However, Proposition 47 of 2014, which he backed, and whose repeal he continues to oppose, reduced the penalty for theft up to $950 from a felony to a misdemeanor.

In addition, the California State Senate passed a bill in the summer of 2023 that would bar employers from requiring their workers to help stop shoplifters, per Breitbart News.

RELATED: Brazen Shoplifting Activity in San Fran Continues…

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Police: Chicago Man on Ankle Monitor in Murder Case Found Shot in Stolen Car with 2 Guns

Police: Chicago Man on Ankle Monitor in Murder Case Found Shot in Stolen Car with 2 Guns
Cook County Sheriff's Office

A Chicago man with an ankle monitor who was already up on 160 charges, including murder, has been charged in a new shooting after allegedly being found with two guns in a stolen car.

Torrey Lewis, who has a long criminal record, was found wounded in a stolen car in the parking lot of an auto parts store in the south suburban Chicago town of Dolton, police said on Wednesday. Officers found a rifle and a handgun on the front passenger seat, and a second man was found shot in the back seat, WLS-TV reported.

Police say Lewis was involved in a gun fight that injured four people. The gunfight occurred when multiple people jumped out of two cars and began firing at each other.

The Cook County Sheriff’s department has admitted to having the suspect in the electronic monitor system but also noted that the convict was on one of his “free movement days,” and they were not monitoring him at the time he was involved in the shooting.

This “free movement day” consists of two days a week automatically granted to suspects and convicts on ankle monitors, a mandate that is contained in the state’s recently enacted soft-on-crime SAFE-T Act that also eliminated cash bail in the Land of Lincoln.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Interview

J.B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois, speaks during an interview in Chicago on Feb. 23, 2023. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Officials did review the monitor’s GPS data and found that Lewis was either being chased or was allgedly chasing someone in the stolen car.

The tracking data revealed that Lewis left his home at 8:48 a.m. and “proceeded to travel at high rates of speed throughout the South Suburbs, at times reaching speeds of over 100 miles an hour, until he arrived at the scene of the shooting,” the Southland Journal reported.

Lewis was on electronic monitoring (EM) while awaiting trial for murder in a shooting from July that left Timothy Horace dead. Horace, who was disabled and in a wheel chair, was shot outside a movie theater in front of his girlfriend in Country Club Hills in 2017.

The suspect was initially held in jail. But in May 2020, his bond was reduced and he was placed on EM after posting the required ten percent.

Lewis has now been charged with felony aggravated unlawful use of a weapon for the incident in Dolton. But he is currently in the hospital for his injuries.

The incident is just another example of how badly the Democrat-driven SAFE-T Act has been for the state.

On its first day, Illinois county attorneys and sheriffs denounced the law as “absurd” for delivering “incoherent” results as judges are required to release a host of repeat offenders after their cases are heard.

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Feds: Democrat Former Lawmaker in Illinois Submitted False Insurance Policies for Nonexistent People

Annazette Collins
ilga.gov

A former Illinois Democrat state senator is in hot water for allegedly submitting false insurance policies after leaving her position and starting a career selling insurance.

Federal prosecutors on Friday accused Annazette Collins of submitting the policies for individuals who did not request them or were not even real people, the Chicago Sun-Times reported, noting officials have so far not filed criminal charges against her regarding the allegations.

An image shows the woman in question:

“Those policies were tied to bank accounts controlled either by Collins or her daughter, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Parthum told a judge,” the outlet said.

Collins recently said she would testify for allegedly evading almost $100,000 in taxes.

“Prosecutors had previously disclosed Collins was fired from her job at American Income Life Insurance, but they said they would not seek to disclose the reason unless she decided to take the stand,” the Sun-Times report said, noting she was later fired from her position as an insurance agent with the company for allegedly violating its policies.

Jurors were permitted to hear about the allegations if she decided to take the stand, but she apparently decided against it.

A verdict was not reached on Friday afternoon. Therefore, jurors plan to come back on Monday.

The Sun-Times report also said, “Federal investigations have swirled around Collins for years. Her name surfaced in two separate corruption trials last year, including the trial of four political insiders convicted of a nearly decade-long conspiracy to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to benefit ComEd.”

According to her profile on the Illinois General Assembly website, Collins’ biography reads:

Served as an Administrator for the Chicago School Board. Previously served in the Department of Children and Family Services, the Cook County Probation Department, and as a Prison Correctional Officer. Received her bachelor degree in Sociology from Chicago State University and received an M.S. in Criminal Justice and has completed further graduate work in counseling from Chicago State University. Lives on Chicago’s West Side with her husband Keith Langston and daughters Angelique Nicole and Taylor Kourtnie.

According to National Association of Insurance Commissioners, “Insurance fraud occurs when an insurance company, agent, adjuster or consumer commits a deliberate deception in order to obtain an illegitimate gain.”

It is possible for such fraud to occur when someone is buying, using, selling, or underwriting insurance, the group said, noting fraud also hurts the financial situations of consumers and businesses.

Meanwhile, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) website says, “The insurance industry consists of more than 7,000 companies that collect over $1 trillion in premiums each year.”

“The massive size of the industry contributes significantly to the cost of insurance fraud by providing more opportunities and bigger incentives for committing illegal activities,” the site stated.


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