Thief gets away with $1,900 in perfume
TEMPLE TERRACE -- Police are trying to sniff out a shoplifter who got away with $1,900 in perfume from a local pharmacy.
The thief (left) walked into the CVS Pharmacy, 110 Bullard Parkway, on Jan. 21 about 9 p.m., talking on his cell phone and browsing before picking up a basket and filling it with perfume products, authorities say.
"Some of the perfume is locked up in a case," said Temple Terrace police Detective Patricia Stanton. "But some of the gift sets were not locked up, and to my understanding some of them were pretty high dollar."
He then walked out of the store with the basket and got into a late-model, black four-dour sedan with a license plate number beginning with X81.
Stanton said she thinks the products will be resold, but she doesn't know where.
"This is the second time this has happened at this particular store," she said. "The first time was on Jan. 8, but we're not aware if it was the same suspect."
Police ask anyone with information to call (813) 989-7090.
- Robbyn Mitchell, Times staff writer
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Wouldnt you think if its an open investigation of the first shoplifting incedent the police could review the tape from that and compare suspects,,,
as they appear to imply the other suspect got away also
Posted by: BOB | February 04, 2008 at 04:48 PM
sounds inside to me
Posted by: Cia Daly | February 04, 2008 at 10:00 PM
Something about this story stinks.
Posted by: art | February 05, 2008 at 08:23 AM