Las Cruces Crime Stoppers is offering a reward for information that helps identify a group – possibly a family – suspected of shoplifting more than $4,000 worth of merchandise from Target.
The incident occurred the evening of Feb. 15 at the Las Cruces Target store at 2541 E. Lohman Ave. Las Cruces Police detectives learned that the group entered the store together and loaded merchandise into two shopping carts. They then rolled the carts past all checkouts and left the store with an estimated $4,175 worth of merchandise.
Surveillance cameras from Target captured images of a group of five individuals suspected of working together. The group appears to include an adult woman, two young men and one woman in their teens or early 20s, and a young girl who is possibly 8 to 12 years old. The surveillance photos attached do not show the young girl.
Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information that helps identify the suspects. Anyone with information that can help identify any of the suspects is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or send a tip by text message to CRIMES (274637), keyword LCTIPS.
The Crime Stoppers number and text messaging services are operational 24 hours a day and you do not have to give your name to collect a reward.
Information from Las Cruces Police