Shoplifter With 4 Prior Arrests Busted for Stealing from Hoboken ShopRite

Around 8:47 PM on March 11, 2024, Officers Jessica Pizanie and Chelsea Tamborra with the Hoboken Police Department responded to a report of a shoplifting at ShopRite on 900 Madison Street. They entered the store around 8:52 PM and they walked upstairs to the loss prevention office. In the loss prevention office, they met with the loss prevention officer as well as the alleged shoplifter, who was identified as 48-year-old Talat.

The loss prevention officer informed the officers that the man did pay for 26 items totaling $151.47 in the self-checkout lane, but he left the store without paying for another 36 items totaling $300.87. After briefly listening to his pleas for leniency and his offer to pay for the items, Officer Pizanie placed Talat under arrest for shoplifting. He was handcuffed, searched, and escorted to the patrol car.

Officer Tamborra loaded the items he had paid for into the police car and Talat was transported to the Hoboken Police Department for further processing. At police HQ, he was searched in more detail. Officer Pizanie finger printed and photographed him, and he called his wife to come to police HQ and retrieve his property as well as the items that he had paid for at ShopRite. He was subsequently charged with shoplifting under 2C:20-11B(1) and remanded to the Hudson County Correctional Facility.

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