Police in California launched a video clip of a triad of claimed kleptomaniacs that were stunned to figure out that the charge for their criminal activity had actually lately altered.
In the viral security video clip shared by the Seal Beach Police Department on Sunday, 3 females can be seen strolling right into an Ulta Beauty shop, searching the racks, after that delicately leaving business with what cops stated was virtually $650 well worth of taken goods.
“… a friendly reminder that Proposition 36, which increases punishments for some retail theft and drug possession offenses, went into effect Wednesday morning in California,” the Seal Beach Police Department created in the inscription of the video clip on their Instagram account.
The video clip reveals the females going into a Kohls shop and supposedly taking even more goods, completing virtually $1,000 in taken products.
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An affirmed thief was stunned to figure out some theft offenses are currently taken into consideration a felony in California. (Seal Beach Police Department)
Bodycam video clip after that reveals law enforcement officer chasing the females and eventually apprehending them.
“It’s a felony?” among the females asks the various other in the rear of the police car.
“B—h new laws,” the lady reacts. “Stealing is a felony and this Orange County b—h. They don’t play.”
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The females were captured on electronic camera swiping products from a number of California companies, cops stated. (Seal Beach Police Department)
The females were later on determined by cops as Destiny Bender, 24, and Deanna Hines, 24, both from Long Beach, and Michelle Pitts, 26, of Signal Hill.
All 3 people were scheduled right into the Orange County Jail on costs of Grand Theft, Conspiracy to Commit a Crime and Resisting Arrest.
Police shared a pleasant pointer in addition to the video clip.
“It undoes some of the changes voters made with a 2014 ballot measure that turned certain nonviolent felonies into misdemeanors, effectively shortening prison sentences and leading to a spike in retail theft and crime,” cops stated. “Here in Seal Beach we never believed in the cite and release program, but this new proposition only strengthens our commitment to combatting Organized Retail Theft. Remember folks, don’t steal in Seal.”
Proposition 36, the Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act, looked for to reverse sections of Proposition 47 by boosting fines for some criminal offenses. It was extremely come on California, turning around some billionaire George Soros- backed soft-on-crime plans.
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The affirmed burglars were stunned to find out that they can be billed with a felony for taking. (Seal Beach Police Department)
When Proposition 47 come on 2014, it devalued most burglaries from felonies to offenses if the quantity taken was under $950, “unless the defendant had prior convictions of murder, rape, certain sex offenses, or certain gun crimes.”
Progressive Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gasc ón, backed by Soros, assisted writer Proposition 47, and shed his seat to opposition Nathan Hochman inNovember
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California Gov Gavin Newsom continued to be adamantly opposed to the initiative to reverse sections of Proposition 47, stating it “takes us back to the 1980s, mass incarceration.”
Fox News Digital’s Jamie Joseph added to this record.
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