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Recent Examples of shoplifter from the Web
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A Hartford woman was grooming two teenage girls as shoplifters at the Buckland mall, police said.
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Belton posted excellent, high-quality pictures of the shoplifter on her Facebook page and asked friends to share.
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A struggle ensues, which ends with the shoplifter handcuffed and compliant.
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Theft, Brookpark Road: Target employees called police about 9 p.m. May 15 about a shoplifter.
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Atlanta (CNN)In a rough part of this city's northwest side, the call about a shoplifter at a discount store should have been straightforward.
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The shoplifter and his accomplice were both described as Middle Eastern and with dark hair.
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A shoplifter stole a plethora of items from the CVS on Walnut Creek Drive, including eight Sonicare electric toothbrushes, four OB electric toothbrushes and four Simply Straight hairbrushes totaling $552.89 in loss.
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There’s the old man who slips on the shop keeper’s icy walk downtown, and the teenage shoplifter whose hands, always so quick, finally fail her.
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First Known Use of shoplifter
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Law Dictionary
shoplifter
Legal Definition of shoplifter
: one who shoplifts
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