Police officer in NM arrested for shoplifting from Target

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Albuquerque Police Department officer facing shoplifting charges​

Jan 5, 2024
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – As the Albuquerque Police Department cracks down on organized retail crime, one of their own is now accused of shoplifting. Even while driving a government vehicle to the store.
According to a criminal complaint, an Albuquerque police officer is facing four charges for shoplifting at two Albuquerque target stores and was caught on video doing it. In fact, one of the Albuquerque police officers called to investigate the thefts immediately recognized her in the surveillance pictures as one of their officers.​

According to the criminal complaint, Vanessa Santillanes got away with almost $160 worth of beauty products and shoes on four separate occasions from the target locations on Coors and on Paseo.

The court records state Santillanes is a patrolman second class for APD. Investigators say she was involved in ticket switching, where she scanned products with barcodes switched with cheaper-priced items at self-checkout.

Police say on April 17, Santillanes was at Target on 9371 Coors Blvd NW when she scanned a body cream which should have cost $28, but she scanned it for 50 cents. The same day, the document reads she scanned a tanning product which has a retail price of $40, but Santillanes scanned it for 50 cents again. The police report said she used plastic cups to do the ticket switches. The store lost almost $70 that day.

During another trip on April 30, she ticket switched again according to documents, but this time with shoes; causing a loss of more than $35 to the Target at 6100 Paseo Del Norte NE. The other incidents were in June and November where she got away with more than $50 in other beauty products.

According to police, in her last incident, she was seen leaving the parking lot in her government vehicle. When investigators interviewed Santillanes, they say she confirmed that she was the person in the surveillance photos.

According to APD, Santillanes is on leave during the investigation, and the Attorney General’s office has taken over the case. She is facing four counts of shoplifting charges under $250 which is a petty misdemeanor. She is set to appear in court on January 9.

 

[CopiousX]

she jeopardized a cushy 40k govt job over $50.0 in makeup?

 

[Absolut]

she jeopardized a cushy 40k govt job over $50.0 in makeup?

Criminals will criminal

 

[Belize King]

Ma’am, do you know why we stopped you?

 

[east]

target usually lets known shoplifters run it up until they meet the threshold for a felony beef, i wonder why they played it different this time

 

[get these nets]

Criminals will criminal

Always. MFers are who they are.

Most of these shoplifting stories involve skip scanning at self checkout. This chick was switching price tag upc codes.

 

[DaPresident]

It isn’t worth it…

 

[B86]

Let these goofy ass Coli nikkas tell it, nobody is stealing and these stores are just making up lies…

 

[get these nets]

*completely aired her out, with game show sound effects & graphics added.





KRQE Investigates

WATCH: APD officer charged with shoplifting by switching price tags​

Feb 28, 2024

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Shoplifting is a crime the Albuquerque Police Department has dedicated extra resources to over the last several years. APD officers often work overtime and conduct stings at retail stores across the city to crack down on the crime. Now, one of the agency’s own is charged with committing it.

 

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Former Albuquerque police officer pleads no contest to shoplifting charges​

Jun 27, 2024
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – While Albuquerque police crackdown on rampant shoplifting city wide, a now former Albuquerque Police Department Officer has pled to charges tied to swapping out price tags.

In an agreement with prosecutors to avoid trial, Santillanes pled “no contest” to two counts of misdemeanor shoplifting. She was arrested late last year, after being caught on camera and accused of stealing from two Albuquerque Target stores.


Investigators say she got away with nearly $160 worth of beauty products and shoes across four different dates. Police say Santillanes swapped out price tags of expensive items with cheaper items like plastic cups

Neither the state nor Santillanes got the sentence they hoped for. Prosecutors wanted six months of supervised probation. At the same time, the defense asked for just 90 days of unsupervised probation.

Metropolitan Court Judge Judge Maria Dominguez gave Santillanes a deferred sentence with no jail time and six months of unsupervised probation. Santillanes resigned from APD in January. She’ll have to pay Target nearly $160 and she is not allowed to go back to any of their stores.

 

[Buddy]

So she wasn't even undercover?

 

[The_Sheff]

People still doing barcode swaps? We were on that back in 2001. And we didn't have self checkout either.

We would swap for similar items like different size hard drives, speaker systems of the same brand, etc..... Dumb asses would go in and try to swap a PS2 with a controller and get caught.