Violent Shoplifting

• ‘It hurts bigger’: Vancouver small businesses hit hard by shoplifting

  While big box retail chains struggle with repeat and often violent shoplifting, small businesses say theft is also hitting them hard, and some merchants won’t tolerate it.

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  Oct 19, 2023
  
• Almost half of VPD files in recent shoplifting crackdown not sent to Crown

  Project Barcode netted 217 arrests between Feb. 15 and March 10, and the VPD said 278 criminal charges were recommended to Crown counsel.

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  Sep 14, 2023
  
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• ‘Vile behaviour’: Retail chain demands accountability for B.C. shoplifting violence

  Retail violence has increased by 500 per cent over four years, according to London Drugs’ loss prevention general manager.

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  Aug 29, 2023
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• Vancouver shoplifting crackdown nets 138 arrests including 14 repeat offenders

  Over the course of a two-week anti-shoplifting blitz, Vancouver police arrested 138 people and recommended 125 criminal charges to Crown prosecutors. 

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  May 16, 2023
• ‘Worst I have ever seen it’: Vancouver business owner says city not taking crime seriously

  Property crime was down citywide last year, but police have documented increases in smashed windows and violent crime, including assaults, random attacks and robberies.

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  Mar 4, 2022
• Vancouver police arrest 3 people after unrelated shoplifting incidents turn violent

  Recent enforcement blitzes in the Cambie corridor and the Renfrew-Collingwood area netted 22 and 15 shoplifters respectively, according to police.

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  Feb 2, 2022
• 3 arrested after gun allegedly pulled during ice cream theft at Vancouver supermarket

  Police say they arrested three people after one of them allegedly pulled a gun in a dispute over $21 worth of stolen ice cream from a downtown grocery store.

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  Nov 10, 2021
• Video captures another violent altercation at downtown Vancouver supermarket

  It happened just before 5 p.m. at the IGA on Robson street, the same grocery store that's seen repeated violence in recent months. 

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  Apr 24, 2021
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• ‘It’s the Wild West’: Vancouver grocery store owner says violent incidents out of control

  On Monday night around 8 p.m. a fight broke out between a man and staff at the IGA store on Robson Street after the man had allegedly tried to steal some coffee.

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  Feb 25, 2021
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• Man pleads guilty to robbery where downtown Vancouver shop owner was stabbed

  Gidu Nam, who owns the 888 Mini Market on Beach Avenue, told Global News he had to take time off work after the Oct. 21 incident.

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  Sep 18, 2020