Shoplifting 10K A Week

10-thousand dollars of merchandise is being swiped from a local teen clothing store a week... and retailers are fed up.

That same store is part of a nationwide chain and it reports being the 3rd most shoplifted in the company's nationwide chain.

After learning about the alarming trend, a task force to stop shoplifting was recently formed in Mobile.

Store and mall managers, Mobile County Juvenile Judge Edmond Naman and the District Attorney's office are looking for solutions to the 5-finger discount.

Naman plans to implement adding community service to the regular punishment. "It seems that shoplifting has gotten to be such a problem that if we allow it to go unchecked any further, it could drive major retailers out of this city. There will be a component of community service. If a child steals, we're gonna put them out and make them working to pay for their actions or at least to pay back society for what they've done. Their parents are gonna be asked to monitor that with them."

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