{"id":408595,"date":"2026-01-14T12:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408595\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:11:12","slug":"calgary-police-investigate-after-women-allegedly-run-out-on-800-bill-at-salon-and-spa-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408595\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary police investigate after women allegedly run out on $800 bill at salon and spa &#8211; Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Calgary police are investigating after a theft at a northeast Calgary hair salon, during which two women allegedly ran out on hundreds of dollars worth of hair services last month.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rajie Virk is a hair stylist at the Harvest Hair Salon &amp; Spa who says the women came in with a little girl on Dec. 19, wanting everything from hair colouring to a haircut.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did the colour correction on one lady, I did a full head highlight and then haircut treatment while she was sitting for processing I did the other lady,\u201c says Virk.<\/p>\n<p>The total came up to about $800.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>Virk says when it came time to pay, one of the women had already left the salon with the little girl, and the other woman had to get her money from her car, but she never came back.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Virk has been a hairstylist for 25 years and says she has never had this happen to her before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know when you break your heart and soul, with your heart and soul. We are so passionate about your work and people take advantage like that. You feel very disappointed because it\u2019s not about the money, it\u2019s how people think they can go anywhere and get these things done and they just can leave,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11609761\/canada-gun-buyback-pilot-25-guns\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/canada-gun-buyback.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tOttawa\u2019s gun buyback pilot was \u2018successful,\u2019 destroyed 25 guns: minister\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11609558\/surfer-rescued-puerto-rico-video\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768392672_378_rescue.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tSurfer found alive, saved in daring rescue after missing for 30 hours at sea\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harvest Hair Salon &amp; Spa owner Beant Dhaliwal says since the theft, they\u2019re now implementing policies such as taking identification as well as partial or even full payments up front, especially for new clients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s quite the money, especially during the Christmas time. It was very hurtful for us,\u201d says Dhaliwal.<\/p>\n<p>Virk doesn\u2019t think she\u2019ll ever see the money that she\u2019s owed, but says its not about the money but instead hoping this doesn\u2019t happen to other stylists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want their faces out there so they can\u2019t do this to other people,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Calgary police are investigating after a theft at a northeast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,172137,48,2169,44],"class_list":["post-408595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-calgary-salon-and-spa","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}