A 40-year-old Vancouver woman has been charged with theft under $5,000 after a Delta police ‘boost and bust’ operation on Dec. 13.
Last Thursday, the Delta police street crime unit conducted a ‘boost and bust’ project at the Tsawwassen Mills/Tsawwassen Commons.
According to DPD, around 4 p.m. a loss prevention officer in a large department store observed a woman pick up a wallet from a shopping cart of a customer.
This information was then communicated to police who were already on scene for the project. Police quickly arrived to observe the women exit the store, and get into a vehicle. They pulled the vehicle over, and arrested the alleged thief.
“These ‘boost and bust’ projects are a joint venture between Delta police officers, Tsawwassen Mills and Commons security and individual loss prevention officers,” said DPD public affairs coordinator. “They’re conducted regularly throughout the year to make sure our officers have excellent knowledge of the area, and they’re also a great way for us to build relationships with businesses.”
Leykauf said during operations such as this, police work in cooperation with mall security in both an overt and covert capacity. They saturate the mall and surrounding area in order to detect persons who are either committing criminal offences, or who are known to be wanted on arrest warrants, and then safely arrest the suspects.
The arrested suspect, Angela Richards, is considered a prolific property crime offender, and was remanded into police custody. She is scheduled to appear in court Monday afternoon.
