The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

$300K in goods taken from Victoria’s Secrets.

- By Amanda C. Coyne Amanda.Coyne@ajc.com

Police have arrested six people they say shoplifted from a large number of stores, including every Victoria’s Secret in Gwinnett County, taking home more than $300,000 in stolen items.

Gwinnett County officers have arrested people from two separate shopliftin­g crews and are seeking another on a felony shopliftin­g warrant, Channel 2 Action News reported. The thieves were captured on camera shoving items into garbage bags and shopping totes before running out of the stores.

“I was able to see that the same people were coming in time and time again, sometimes multiple times in a single day,” said Cpl. Brandon Townley, who investigat­ed the thefts for months before the recent arrests.

The people charged in connection with these thefts are:

■ Shydajha Johnson, 20, of Athens, charged with three counts of felony shopliftin­g;

■ Akasia Ford, 20, of Athens, charged with one count of felony shopliftin­g;

■ Deonte Walton, 23, of Athens, charged with one count of felony shopliftin­g;

■ Christya James, 27, of Atlanta, charged with one count of felony shopliftin­g;

■ Tearia Hicks, 24, of Norcross, charged with three counts of felony shopliftin­g;

■ Cedronia Johnson, charged with one count of felony shopliftin­g (her age and location was not immediatel­y available)

Police have also taken a felony shopliftin­g warrant out for Elantra Roach, who has not been apprehende­d.

Shydajha Johnson, Ford, Walton and Roach are believed to be part of one crew, and James, Hicks and Cedronia Johnson are believed to be part of another group, Channel 2 reported.

Surveillan­ce footage shows shoplifter­s clearing entire tables of clothes and underwear in seconds before fleeing.

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