Shoplifter With $19,000 in Merchandise Arrested in Palo Alto

<p>Palo Alto Police arrested a San Francisco woman this weekend with more than &dollar;19&comma;000 in stolen property in the trunk of her car after she shoplifted more than &dollar;1600 of clothing from a retailer at Stanford Shopping Center&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Saturday&comma; February 26&comma; 2022&comma; at about 4&colon;34 p&period;m&period;&comma; officers responded to Victoria’s Secret at Stanford Shopping Center at 180 El Camino Real at the request of a store loss prevention officer&period;  The loss prevention officer reported that a woman currently in the store had committed prior shoplifts&period;  As police waited outside&comma; the loss prevention officer continued to observe the woman and watched as she concealed more than &dollar;1600 of clothing into a bag she had brought into the store with her&period;  She then left the store without paying for the merchandise&comma; and police detained her without incident&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The investigation revealed that the suspect had come to the shopping center in a vehicle registered to her &lpar;a black 2015 Mercedes C300 sedan&rpar;&comma; but that was bearing an unreported stolen license plate&period;  Police determined that the license plate had been stolen off a vehicle registered in San Francisco&period;  Inside the car&comma; police located more than &dollar;19&comma;000 in property stolen from other Victoria’s Secret stores in Fairfield and San Jose&comma; as well as from a prior theft at the Palo Alto store&period;  Police also found two iPads that had been stolen from Victoria’s Secret stores that belonged to the business&comma; and an additional license plate that had been reported lost or stolen off a vehicle registered in Rancho Cordova&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Police booked 20-year-old Jaleila Sharee Blaettler of San Francisco into the Santa Clara County Main Jail for felony commercial burglary&comma; felony possession of stolen property&comma; misdemeanor possession of stolen property&comma; and misdemeanor possession of burglary tools &lpar;for the bag with which she entered the store to conceal the stolen merchandise&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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