Local Retail Stores Filing Shoplifting Complaints Directly With DA’s Office

UNITY, Pa. (AP) – Some retail stores in Pennsylvania are increasingly taking an approach to combat shoplifting that bypasses local police.
Stores like Walmart, Sears, Kohl’s and others are filing private criminal complaints against suspected shoplifters directly to the district attorney’s office.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review found they accounted for nearly half of more than 4,000 shoplifting complaints filed in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties over roughly five years.
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