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Let's get into this story of someone who really enjoys shoplifting and bring on Long Beach City Prosecutor Doug Halbert.

Welcome to KFISER.

Hello. Thank you for having me.

All right. So I'm just going to ask you. I'm going to start off with two related questions.

Tell us about this lady and what she did.

And then to the extent that you can at this time, tell us what you plan

to do about it?

Well, sure.

Based on an investigation that was done by the Long Beach Police Department in cooperation

with loss prevention employees at T.J. Max, we identified at least 30 separate incidents where this individual, based on video

and photographs, shoplifted at one store over a period of about eight months. We presented

the case to the court in one major case, so it's only one case, but it has 30 separate counts of

misdemeanor theft. And I say misdemeanor because under California law, of course, if the value

of what was taken was below $950, it's going to always be a misdemeanor no matter how many times the person steals.

And so all we can do, my office, by the way, prosecutes misdemeanor cases.

So the only thing we can do is file a case in court for misdemeanor theft.

Now, are these six-month max misdemeanors or one-year max misdemeanors?

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