Two New York residents stole more than $300 in merchandise from the Dickson City Target before fleeing in a Toyota Rav4 on Saturday, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Lesa Marie Savage and Joshua Ostrander, both of Binghamton, face multiple charges, including felony counts of retail theft.<\/p>\n
Officers noted both Savage, 34, and Ostrander, 43, had extensive prior records of retail theft. Savage has nine prior retail theft convictions, while Ostrander has seven.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint, Dickson City police were dispatched to the Commerce Boulevard Target for a retail theft at about 10:15 p.m.<\/p>\n
The suspects fled in a vehicle and were found by officers pulling into a nearby Walmart.<\/p>\n
Officers approached Savage in the driver\u2019s seat and detained her, as well as Ostrander, the front-seat passenger.<\/p>\n
Savage repeatedly told officers she hadn\u2019t taken the merchandise out of the store.<\/p>\n
Police reminded her Target staff had seen her using a cutting device on merchandise inside the store.<\/p>\n
Officers searched Savage and found metal cutting snips in her front pocket, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
She said Ostrander put the stolen items in the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Police searched the vehicle and found stolen Target merchandise and drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n
Inside Savage\u2019s hat, they found a needle loaded with what officers believed was methamphetamine, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
Savage and Ostrander were transported back to Target, where they were identified by store personnel as having stolen merchandise valued at $323.<\/p>\n
Savage faces a felony count of retail theft, as well as misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance and paraphernalia. Ostrander is charged with felony counts of retail theft and receiving stolen property, in addition to related misdemeanor charges.<\/p>\n
Both remain in Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of bail \u2014 Savage $5,000 and Ostrander $10,000. Both have preliminary hearings on May 6 before District Judge George Seig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two New York residents stole more than $300 in merchandise from the Dickson City Target before fleeing in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,1099,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-180352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-dickson-city","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}