Two women accused of running a shoplifting ring across New York have been arrested following a months-long investigation by numerous agencies.<\/p>\n
Investigators say Maria Betances, 47, of Valley Stream, had people steal specific merchandise like makeup, clothing and high-demand retail products from stores in Queens, Staten Island, Nassau, Westchester and Rockland counties. <\/p>\n
She allegedly worked with Leslie Cruz, 24, or East Elmhurst.<\/p>\n
State police say most of the stolen items were kept at a home in Valley Stream that is used as a registered daycare.<\/p>\n
The items were then sold on social media or sent to the Dominican Republic to be resold, according to state police.<\/p>\n
Investigators recovered more than 5,000 allegedly stolen items worth an estimated $159,000 from locations in Valley Stream and East Elmhurst, along with broken security devices, tools used to remove anti-theft tags, and about $30,000 in cash.<\/p>\n
The alleged thefts happened from February through last month.<\/p>\n
They are both charged with grand larceny, conspiracy, attempted criminal possession of stolen property and criminal possession of stolen property.<\/p>\n
Betances was also charged with endangering the welfare of a child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two women accused of running a shoplifting ring across New York have been arrested following a months-long investigation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-310058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}