{"id":1219780,"date":"2022-01-17T10:22:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1219780"},"modified":"2022-01-17T10:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T15:22:43","slug":"chicago-police-arrest-15-year-old-kid-running-elaborate-beauty-product-crime-ring-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-police-arrest-15-year-old-kid-running-elaborate-beauty-product-crime-ring-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Police Arrest 15-Year-Old Kid Running Elaborate Beauty Product Crime Ring: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchicago-police-arrest-15-year-old-kid-running-elaborate-beauty-product-crime-ring-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1219780&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Chicago Police Department arrested a 15-year-old boy accused of running an elaborate crime ring focused on robbing high-end beauty and hygiene stores and then selling stolen goods on the black market. The boy remains unnamed since he is only a minor but was charged last Thursday with 21 felony counts after he and several of his accomplices were finally caught after a months-long investigation by CPD.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/cwbchicago.com\/2022\/01\/an-ulta-beauty-crime-ring-organizer-is-busted-hes-15.html\">CWB Chicago<\/a>, the young boy is suspected of being linked \u201cto ten raids on Ulta stores across the city between August 27 and October 24.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suspect and his accomplices are accused of entering into beauty stores, dumping as many products as they could into garbage bags, and then walking out before making a profit off their stolen goods on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if the following video is related to the alleged teenage crime lord, but the theft caught on camera occurred around the same time and in the same location as the aforementioned heists:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sent by a follower.<\/p>\n<p>This was at the Ulta in Norridge at 4115 N Harlem near the 16th district in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Chicago?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Chicago<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ab59s9N2lA\">pic.twitter.com\/Ab59s9N2lA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 16th &amp; 17th District Chicago Police Scanner (@CPD1617Scanner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CPD1617Scanner\/status\/1442575822565556226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmash-and-grabs,\u201d as the video above purportedly shows, have become commonplace in major American cities, as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/rogue-prosecutors\">rogue prosecutors<\/a>\u201d often refuse to pursue these acts for a variety of reasons. Across the country, organized mobs of individuals have been walking into high-end stores, pharmacies, liquor stores, and more while simply stealing items off the shelf in one fell swoop.<\/p>\n<p>In Chicago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chicago-police-dispatcher-slams-lori-lightfoot-over-rising-crime-youre-a-disgrace-and-im-tired-of-it\">critics<\/a> have placed the blame squarely at the feet of Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) and Prosecutor Kim Foxx.<\/p>\n<p>Foxx, perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jussie-smollett-special-prosecutor-referring-kim-foxx-to-illinois-attorney-registration-for-ethic-violations-false-statements\">best known<\/a> for her failure to prosecute convicted hate-crime hoax artist Jussie Smollett, had previously promised to start prosecuting shoplifting only if the stolen merchandise was under $1,000 or if the suspect had fewer than 10 felony charges. Due to the nature of the crimes and lack of action by Foxx, however, Chicago authorities haven\u2019t prevented thousands of dollars of worth of merchandise from being stolen regularly.<\/p>\n<p>And Foxx\u2019s leniency goes beyond shoplifting. In December, The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/blame-voters-for-crime-wave-shoplifting-smash-grab-prosecutors-shooting-murder-stabbing-11639604421\">reported<\/a> that in her \u201cfirst three years in office, Ms. Foxx dismissed all charges against nearly 30% of felony defendants, or some 25,000 felony cases including for murder, shootings and sex crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Across the city, activists are calling for the city to do something about the growing problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only is it being tolerated because we\u2019re seeing it more, but we\u2019re seeing there\u2019s no prosecution involved in this,\u201d Pete Eliadis, a former law enforcement official and current CEO of Intelligence Consulting Partners, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/smash-grab-theft-criminals\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaw enforcement is not going to engage with that type of element because it\u2019s an accepted crime,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot had previously tried to blame the uptick in crime on the COVID-19 pandemic, but that idea seems to lack any evidence. In 2019, before the pandemic started, shoplifting had already <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2019\/10\/11\/with-rise-in-shoplifting-some-retailers-criticize-states-attorneys-approach-prosecutors-defend-policy\/\">risen by 34%<\/a> since 2015 in the Windy City.<\/p>\n<p>Betsy Smith, a former Chicago-area law enforcement officer and spokesperson for the National Police Association, told Fox News that Lightfoot\u2019s theory was \u201csilly\u201d and an attempt to \u201cblame every crime in Chicago on the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we were locked down during the eye of the pandemic, I felt no great need to go steal from my local Ulta or Louis Vuitton store,\u201d Smith added.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the problem does not appear to be going away. CWB Chicago reported that nine hours after the \u201cmajor arrest\u201d of the 15-year-old was announced Friday, another beauty store was robbed.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Police Department arrested a 15-year-old boy accused of running an elaborate crime ring focused on robbing high-end beauty and hygiene stores and then selling stolen goods on the black market. The boy remains unnamed since he is only a minor but was charged last Thursday with 21 felony counts after he and several &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}