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The Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office has released body camera and surveillance footage showing a deadly confrontation between a deputy and an alleged shoplifter at a Walmart in Southwest Miami-Dade.
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Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2026
Social media debates have been going on ever since, with some posts defending the need to crack down on serial shoplifters while others condemn the stores for privacy invasion.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2026
During the clash, the shoplifter grabbed a baseball bat and struck the worker multiple times in the face, causing a deep gash.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2026
Back at the Dunwoody Police Department, the cops are unable to identify that shoplifter.
—Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2026
Social media debates have been going on ever since, with some posts defending the need to crack down on serial shoplifters while others condemn the stores for privacy invasion.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2026
During the clash, the shoplifter grabbed a baseball bat and struck the worker multiple times in the face, causing a deep gash.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2026
Back at the Dunwoody Police Department, the cops are unable to identify that shoplifter.
—Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoplifter
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Since Sylvie hasn’t exactly been taking good care of herself, her niece, Céline (India Hair), who owns half the apartment, sets her up with a young drifter, Adam (Adam Bessa), who rescued Céline from a subway pickpocket.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
14 May 2026
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Bags with open-top designs are an easy target for pickpockets.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
13 May 2026
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Paula records the assault on camera, takes it to the police — an officer played by Dolly de Leon dismisses it as an obvious scam — and then gets the inevitable ask for money from someone claiming to be his kidnapper.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
20 May 2026
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The season 27 finale begins with Captain Benson and her SVU squad learning the devastating truth that one of their most dangerous criminals — a serial child kidnapper and killer Richard Caine — was released from custody as a result of a procedural mistake.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
15 May 2026
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Sweet potatoes, fruit Jello, and roast pork — not turkey — would be served to all the inmates, from the lowliest cutpurse to what amounted to the celebrity wing, and its residents: Alexander Pantages, the millionaire theater magnate convicted of raping a 17-year-old dancer.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Nov. 2023
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She was born in the Barbican, in about 1584, and died in Fleet Street in 1659, becoming a thief, cutpurse and fence along the way.—
Longreads,
Longreads,
8 May 2018
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The second carjacker, Kenneth Merritt, 29, also pleaded guilty and will be sentenced on June 9.—
Jeramie Bizzle,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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His predecessor, Robert Devlin, had filed criminal charges against Brian North, a state trooper who fatally shot a carjacker armed with a knife as the man sat in a locked car at the end of a high-speed chase on I-95.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
13 Feb. 2026
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The parks department has even posted signs on the beach warning visitors about Cecil’s kleptomaniac habits.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
7 Aug. 2025
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The longtime psych-rock staple co-wrote the album with filmmaker Matt Yoka to be a collection of American stories about hopeless kleptomaniacs, urban explorers, and other people who slip through the cracks.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
30 May 2025
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At the 100-day mark, the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie could hang on a strand of DNA that's still being evaluated by scientists at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, in hopes of identifying her abductor.—
Anna Schecter,
CBS News,
12 May 2026
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The case has garnered global attention and a number of vocal critics blaming investigators for a lack of progress in quickly locating Guthrie and her abductor.—
Josh Campbell,
CNN Money,
12 May 2026
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“Shoplifter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoplifter. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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