A Brick Township husband and wife, who allegedly plumbed the Lowes Home Improvement Center web site for vulnerable spots, are accused of accumulating well over $250,000 worth of items shipped to and stored in their house - unpaid - and investigators suspect that more retailers have been victimized.
To show how social media can lead to rumors being overblown in this day and age, earlier Saturday afternoon a rumor started to spread across local Facebook users and groups of the Ocean County Mall being evacuated. The rumors only had a tiny grain of truth to them.
A man and woman who apparently offered themselves five-finger discounts at Victoria's Secret in Toms River are now the object of a search by township police.
A Mount Holly 29-year-old who admitted siphoning well over $500,000 worth of goods from high-end clothing stores through a debit-card fraud scheme is sentenced to three years in prison.