A shoplifter got a little more than she bargained for last Saturday after being arrested on suspicion of shoplifting.
According to Elk Grove Police, 20-year old Bayyinnah Drones of Sacramento was observed shoplifting at the Old Navy store on West Stockton Boulevard. After being detained, a responding police officer determined Drones also had an active warrant for her arrest.
Drones was arrested and booked into the Sacramento County Jail and is being held for violating terms of her probation.
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The author of the article doesn't say it but my instincts tell me that the passage of Proposition 47 will bring more shoplifters to Elk Grove from south Sac which will in turn result in more purse snatchers and burglars coming in as well.
Proposition 47 decriminalized shoplifting that would previously been charged as a felony burglary if the shoplifter had intent to steal at the time that they entered the store.
The police, due to jail overcrowding are told to write citations (like a traffic ticket) and to not drive the shoplifters to the county jail in Sacramento. The county jail is over crowded due to prison realignment (Assembly Bill 109) which moves felons to the county jails statewide.
There are gangs of shoplifters that consist of shoplifters and get away drivers.
The people that accompany shoplifters might be inclined to move to more vulnerable and lucrative targets and commit strong armed robbery in shopping center parking lots.
They also will gain familiarity with Elk Grove and the various boulevards leading to and from South Sacramento. While driving around the criminals might learn about upscale neighborhoods that have homes that they will come back to burglarize down the road.
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