{"id":41737,"date":"2025-11-07T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/41737\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:27:10","slug":"arrests-made-in-900000-california-retail-theft-operation-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/41737\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests made in $900,000 California retail theft operation \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several people have been arrested in a widespread retail theft operation that targeted home improvement stores in California and resulted in losses of more than $900,000, the California Highway Patrol<\/a> announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

The operation involved returning altered merchandise to the home improvement stores after the items’ valuable internal components were removed, the CHP said<\/a>. The damaged products were returned for new items.<\/p>\n

The investigation began in September after the CHP Valley Division’s Organized Retail Crime Task Force in Sacramento was contacted by The Home Depot about a “sophisticated fraud and theft scheme.”<\/p>\n

The operation included “hundreds of incidents” at retail locations across California, the CHP said.<\/p>\n

Search warrants were executed in several cities, including Baldwin Park in the San Gabriel Valley. About $307,000 in suspected stolen merchandise was recovered, the CHP said.<\/p>\n

Authorities also seized $59,000 in cash and 12 firearms during the investigation.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear how many people were arrested in an operation that involved several law enforcement jurisdictions, including CHP Southern Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several people have been arrested in a widespread retail theft operation that targeted home improvement stores in California…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[387,3552,48,52,51,47,50,49,1969],"class_list":{"0":"post-41737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-crime-and-courts","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-headlines","12":"tag-la-news","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","15":"tag-los-angeles-news","16":"tag-retail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}