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   Video footage shows some brazen thieves in action at a popular   
   retail store in Riverside County.   
      
   A witness says the shoplifters calmly walked inside and took   
   anything they wanted.   
      
   One even used a wire cutter to carefully cut off security   
   leashes on some expensive purses.   
      
   Saturday evening, Lindsey Rodriguez shot a video of a man   
   casually walking out of a Marshalls in Hemet, with his arms full   
   of clothing that Rodriguez says he did not pay for.   
      
   “I worked every single day, 40 hours a week during this whole   
   pandemic, and then I go in and see that, and it's disheartening.   
   It's not Hemet," she says.   
      
   Within a 10-minute span, Rodriguez says she spotted three people   
   stealing, including a woman.   
      
   Footage shows her using a wire cutter to sever the security   
   wires that connect the purses to the racks.   
      
   “People shopping there were just kind of standing there   
   watching. The only thing I figured I could do was get their   
   identities and their license plates and give them to somebody   
   who will do something with them," Rodriguez said.   
      
   Rodriguez and her husband Pancho followed the purse thief, who   
   ran to a dark-colored car that quickly drove away. She called   
   911 and Hemet police say an officer arrived a short time later   
   and ran a license plate, but didn't see anyone suspicious.   
      
   “The people that work at Marshalls are working and sit there on   
   the clock and watch these people just steal from everybody,”   
   Rodriguez said.   
      
   Police also say no one from Marshalls has reported the crimes so   
   far, which is baffling, according to Rodriguez.   
      
   “What is this teaching our children? I don't want my kids to see   
   that kind of stuff when we are going shopping at 7 o'clock at   
   night," she added.   
      
   She says she is fed up with crimes like these, which is why she   
   and her husband shot these videos and posted them on social   
   media.   
      
   “Citizens have to do something. We need to start standing up for   
   ourselves because nobody else is doing it right now," she added.   
      
   NBC4 reached out to Marshalls to find out why they didn’t report   
   the crimes to police, but we are still waiting to hear back.   
      
   https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/multiple-people-caught-   
   on-camera-shoplifting-from-marshalls-store-in-hemet/2701937/   
      
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