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Pre-holiday sting at Walmart nets 15 arrests

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LANCASTER – To combat the rise in thefts that typically occur this time of year, undercover deputies and Walmart Loss Prevention Agents monitored customers shopping at the east Lancaster Walmart on Monday.

During the pre-holiday undercover operation, deputies arrested 10 adults and five juveniles for various crimes, including commercial burglary, robbery, petty theft and a warrant.

Various stolen items were also recovered, including food, clothing, jewelry, cosmetics, DVD’s and vitamins.

The following suspects were arrested during the operation (alphabetically by last name):

* Malissa Calhoun, 30, Female, Black of Lancaster – BURGLARY

* Diamond Carr, 18, Female, Black of Lancaster – BURGLARY

* Devon Dorsey, 18, Male, Black of Lancaster – ROBBERY

* Erik Lopez, 20, Male, Hispanic of Lancaster – BURGLARY

* Kiel Mixon, 20, Male, Black of Lancaster – WARRANT

* Miranda Prescott, 29, Female, White of Lancaster – BURGLARY

* Dominique Roberts, 20, Female, Black – BURGLARY

* Stephanie Rogers, 24, Female, White of Lancaster – PETTY THEFT

* Kealai Taisacan, 20, Female, Other race of Lancaster – PETTY THEFT

* Cody Wilson, 22, Male, White of Lancaster – BURGLARY

* Five female juveniles of Lancaster – BURGLARY

The pre-holiday undercover theft operation was conducted by deputies from the Lancaster Station’s Target Oriented Policing Team (TOP) and Community Oriented Response and Enforcement Team (CORE).

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49 comments for "Pre-holiday sting at Walmart nets 15 arrests"

  1. I actually know a female white on this list and posible a male hispanic. Both work at my place of employment and they are both not at work anymore. The girl looked like she would never harm a fly. I was so worong. But the rummor at work is the girl cannot make bail and she is still in jail. I want to go bail her out and then pimp her out to make my money back. LOL…….Miranda im gonna jack your stapler at work. LOL…..payback for jacking at my favorite store.

  2. 15 people? I’m sure theres more than that! Why are we going after the smaller crooks? Why not go after the crooked a$$ politicians, bankers or all them thieves that brought down the economy!!! Let’s go after the big ballers!!!

  3. they steal because they mama is to busy getting her hair and nails done and buying her babys daddy tattoos what do you think wefare is for lololol

  4. Good to know the LASD is doing something more productive than escorting our mayor around his Blvd. so he doesn’t get beaten up.

      • Yup, the moral compass has been totally skewed, so best keep your eyes open and try to stay out of harm’s way in this”the most
        wonderful time of the year.”

  6. This was an informative article, this type crime happens everyday at Wal-Mart. Along with the countless other crimes that occur here in the AV. I would also like to see the pictures of the people that were arrested, if is useful to everyone, maybe not the criminal but to the citizen that lives here abiding by the law. Stealing from a store leads to Burglary of a residence. I just would like to see what they look like , so if I see then loitering in my neighborhood I can make a call to LASD. Better yet , good work Wal-Mart & Loss Prevention & LASD.

    • When they lose their section 8 vouchers the owners will replace them with another person with a section 8 voucher. Who owns these homes that are rented to people on section 8?

  8. You know, if parents were ACTUALLY allowed to spank their children instead of having to wip worry that some person is gonna yell “child abuse” then we wouldn’t have so many delinquents in this world. Nosy people from DCFS are the reason why kids are so disrespectful and mischievious.

    • They may not be the only reason, but the worry about someone screaming child abuse doesn’t help when a parent is punishing their kid.

  10. Why do they include the race? Don’t get me wrong…I’m pretty smug about it because I believe stereotypes exist for a reason. Racial profiling exists for a reason. And here it is in black and white living proof. BUT…the race shouldn’t matter. I don’t see the relevance to the article…

    • I am sure they are just pulling off the arrest records. I can see why they do it for identification, but I get you point Alyssa.

    • Letting the public know what race committed the crime is very critical!! Also let’s us know off our surroundings on the type of people that are committing the crimes. If a child molester didnt have to register, I sure as hell wouldn’t want them leaving next door to me! I just wished they would also list the names of them juveniles who also to commit crimes!!! Most of these people committing these crimes tend to do it else were!

  12. What constitutes the Burglary charge, I wonder? They didn’t make it out of the store before getting caught, so it can’t go down as theft?

          • Coming into a store with no wallet, no money, and a car missing plates would constitute the intent.

            Also, the use of special devices to remove/defuse rfid or other security devices would also be part of that.

  13. Good, glad these punks got arrested. Hope since these are young ones they learn real fast not to do this crime.

    The parents of those five juveniles better take this as a wake up call, otherwise their dumb girls are headed down a dark and dangerous path.

    Time to start bringing back more serious punishments to curve these behavior.