Conn. ladies dealing with organized crime fees in Mass. Previous Navy heist

Two Connecticut ladies are dealing with organized retail crime fees in reference to alleged thefts at an Previous Navy clothes retailer in Hanover final summer time, Plymouth County District Lawyer Tim Cruz introduced Friday.

Tyeisha Bridges, 32, and Shatoya Lewis, 25, have been lately arrested in New York and extradited to Massachusetts for his or her arraignment Thursday, Cruz stated in a press release shared on X. The pair face one rely every of organized retail crime, larceny over $1,200, larceny underneath $1,200, and two counts of conspiracy. Each ladies pleaded not responsible to the costs. 

Bridges was positioned on $4,000 money bail, and Lewis was positioned on $6,000 money bail, Cruz stated.

Prosecutors allege that the ladies collaborated to steal merchandise from the Hanover retailer on two separate events — as soon as in July and once more in August of 2024. In line with Cruz, native police responded to the retailer on July 9, after receiving studies of three ladies carrying luggage of clothes out of the shop with out paying. Investigators later recognized Bridges and Lewis as two of the three alleged thieves. 

In that incident, Previous Navy loss prevention workers decided that 253 items of merchandise have been stolen, costing a complete of $3,950. Prosecutors say each ladies have been subsequently related to a separate theft on the similar retailer on Aug. 20. In that incident, loss prevention discovered that $920 in merchandise was allegedly stolen. 

“As shoppers, all of us pay the worth when individuals steal from shops. Our Organized Retail Crime Process Pressure continues its work prosecuting large-scale thefts from Plymouth County retailers,” Cruz stated on X.

Bridges and Lewis have been additionally arrested in New York final month for allegedly finishing up related thefts at Kohl’s retail shops in Cortlandt Manor and Bedford, in accordance to New York State Police.

They’re scheduled to seem in a Massachusetts court docket once more on April 29 for a pre-trial listening to.