Woman charged with stealing $300K from California retailers
COSTA MESA, Calif. – A woman has been charged with grand theft for allegedly stealing more than $300,000 in merchandise from retail stores in California.
Ekaterina Zharkova, 38, was arrested last month after an investigator with the California Highway Patrol’s Organized Retail Theft task force saw her stealing from a Nordstrom Rack in Costa Mesa. When members of the task force searched her apartment, they found more than $328,000 worth of stolen merchandise, the Orange County District Attorney’s office said in a statement.
Investigators believe she attempted to sell stolen merchandise through a luxury online consignment store.
Zharkova was charged with four felony counts of grand theft, one felony count of receiving stolen property, and seven misdemeanor counts of petty theft. She faces up to nine years in prison if convicted on all counts.