Law enforcement organizations, such as the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police, also came out against going after small scale shoplifters. Now, lawmakers, police and business lobbyists ...

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy had a simple message to those in organized retail theft “Get your ass out of New Jersey and stay out,” he said Tuesday. There’s a new law to back up that blunt ...

New Jersey is one of 16 states that have passed or introduced legislation toughening rules around retail theft, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers, a retail trade association.

New Jersey is taking steps to protect businesses from organized retail crime. Under a law signed April 1 by Gov. Phil Murphy, the state Attorney General’s Office will create a new law ...

and Malik Williams are accused of being involved in 22 organized thefts across the Philadelphia region and New Jersey. Three Philadelphia men are behind bars, in connection with a retail theft ...

News reports from New York City, which has seen one of the country's largest surges in retail theft, show mom-and-pop store owners living in fear of the next retail attack, forced to allow only ...

EDWARDSVILLE — A New Jersey man was charged with multiple ... A 38-year-old South Roxana man was charged with retail theft over $300, a Class 3 felony. The Edwardsville Police Department ...