Window broken, clothes stolen from men’s store

Window broken, clothes stolen from men’s store - Akron Beacon Journal

Window broken, clothes stolen from men’s store - Akron Beacon Journal
Walmart Goes Buggy, Prompting Pennsylvania State Police Probe - Patch.com
Hutchinson Walmart fire ruled arson; two teens arrested - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Window broken, clothes stolen from men’s store - Akron Beacon Journal

Posted: 16 Dec 2019 12:00 AM PST

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Jan 6, 2020 at 11:12 AM

A store in the Rolling Acres area had merchandise stolen after its front window was broken, Akron police said.

Officers responded to Diamond's Men Store on the 2500 block of Romig Road at 12:39 p.m. Saturday for an open door. When officers arrived, they were met by the store manager, who said clothing was stolen sometime overnight.

The manager told officers that between Friday evening and Saturday morning, an unknown suspect broke the front glass window and stole clothing. Officers observed damage and glass break on the front side of the business.

Police said no suspect information was provided.

Walmart Goes Buggy, Prompting Pennsylvania State Police Probe - Patch.com

Posted: 06 Jan 2020 01:23 PM PST

EDINBORO, PA — Hold the Walmart jokes. This is serious. Pennsylvania authorities are on the hunt for whoever unleashed bed bugs in the discount chain's Supercenter in Edinboro. The crime put store workers on a separate, more-urgent hunt: to track down the elusive little bloodsuckers and kill them.

In the insect hierarchy, bed bugs rank low on the phylum. They're not pollinators. They're not a food source for predators. All they seem to do is load up on the blood of people and animals, and have sex — a lot of it.

Nobody needs or wants bed bugs — especially not the Walmart store, where a manager found several crawling around a men's fitting room on Thursday.

Although a prescription bottle found in a boy's jacket left in the fitting room was capped, some of the bed bugs had escaped. Dead bed bugs were also found in a prescription bottle left on the floor near the men's belts display.

Lab tests Friday confirmed it was bed bugs that were crawling around the fitting room, the Erie Times-News reported. Store officials contacted their peers at other Walmarts in the area to see if bed bug liberator was on the loose, but the bed bug release at the Edinboro store appears to be isolated, according to reports.

Authorities are, ahem, itching to round up the culprit.

Walmart loss prevention officers are reviewing store surveillance video, and state police are dusting the pill bottles for fingerprints.

"We take this seriously and are looking into this," Walmart said in a statement to news station WENY. "We are fully cooperating with law enforcement on their investigation."

The areas where the live and dead bed bugs were found have been blocked off, and a pest control service is working to eradicate them, according to reports.

Bed bugs are small, flat, parasitic insects that feed on the blood of people and animals while they sleep. Reddish-brown in color, these wingless bugs range in size from 1 to 7 millimeters — about the size of Lincoln's head on a penny.

Bed bugs are good hiders, reproduce quickly and are hardy enough to survive for several months without a blood meal, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Other than annoying people, bed bugs don't have much purpose. The one good thing that can be said about bed bugs is they don't carry or spread disease, but their bites can itch so badly that excessive scratching can lead to a secondary skin infection.

Hutchinson Walmart fire ruled arson; two teens arrested - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Posted: 06 Jan 2020 08:59 AM PST

Two 13-year-old boys have been arrested after they allegedly set merchandise on fire inside a Walmart store in Hutchinson, Minn.

Authorities used store surveillance to identify the teens believed to be responsible for the blaze that broke out Sunday afternoon in the men's clothing section of the store at 1300 S. Hwy. 15, said Hutchinson Police Chief Tom Gifferson.

The fire around 3 p.m. caused an estimated $1 million to $2 million in damage, according to the Minnesota State Fire Marshal.

The store's sprinkler system activated, but members of the Hutchinson Police and Fire departments found a small fire still burning when they arrived, Gifferson said.

"Through the course of the investigation, it was determined that the fire was deliberately set," he said.

Authorities later took two teens into custody. Charges against the boys are pending with the McLeod County Attorney's Office, Gifferson said.

A Walmart spokesman said the store remained closed on Monday.

"We're grateful no customers or associates were hurt," said Casey Staheli, spokesman for the retailer. "We appreciate the quick response of local firefighters and law enforcement and are assisting them as they investigate."