Shoplifting arrests at Cincinnati Premium Outlets
The following arrests were made at the Monroe shopping center within the past month. Suspects are being arraigned in Lebanon Municipal Court on various charges.
Oct. 16: Simone Hicks, 31; Detasha Lowe, 31; both of Dayton. Arraignment set for today, Oct. 18.
Sept. 24: Tequila Gaines, 18; Isis Morrell, 19; and Danette Postell, 18, all of Dayton. Pretrial hearings today, Oct. 18. Two juveniles, also of Dayton and Trotwood, were released to their parents Sept. 24, with charges pending in 4 to 6 weeks from the Warren County Juvenile Court.
Sept. 24: Ashley Williams, 24; Shatone Todd, 23; Andrea Lovett, 23, of Dayton; Brittany Appleberry, 22, of Trotwood. Arraignment Sept. 30 in Lebanon Municipal Court, all pleaded not guilty.
MONROE — Two Dayton women are facing multiple charges for allegedly stealing clothing and other items from retail stores at Cincinnati Premium Outlets on Ohio 63 and Interstate 75.
Employees at The Children’s Place Outlet Store told police they observed Simone Hicks, 31, and Detasha Lowe, 31, taking items from the store around 8:45 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16. The two women were arrested and charged after a search of their car and bags revealed stolen property from several of the mall’s stores.
Police said they even found a 7-inch screwdriver allegedly used to pry security sensors off store items tucked inside the diaper of a 2-year-old child that had been with Hicks.
Hicks and Lowe are among nine women arrested in the past three weeks for shoplifting at the Monroe shopping center. Lt. Brian Curlis, of the Monroe Police Department, said he doesn’t think the incidents are connected.
“They’re experienced shoplifters because they always work in teams,” Curlis said. “They have a lookout, (and) they have people to distract (other) people.”
Hicks has been charged with theft, receiving stolen property, obstructing official business, criminal tools and endangering children. She also had three open warrants — two with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and one from a November 2009 arrest by Monroe police for failure to appear in court regarding another incident at the outlet mall.
Lowe is facing charges of receiving stolen property. She also had two open warrants with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and the Kettering Police Department for forgery, receiving stolen property, and a traffic violation.
A third woman who was with Lowe and Hicks was not charged because she was not found to be in possession of any stolen items.
Curlis said shoplifters continue to target the outlet mall because of its close proximity to I-75.
On Oct. 16, Children’s Place employees “told mall security two females were observed inside the store taking items and then going to the front door and handing it out the door to the third female, and she placed the items in her bag,” said Monroe Police Officer Paul Corbeil.
As the three women walked by Aeropostale, they were stopped and questioned, he said.
Hicks, who first told police her name was Brandy Nicole Dancer, initially denied stealing anything, but later admitted to taking items from Children’s Place after being confronted with what store personnel had observed.
Authorities found two shirts from the Children’s Place inside her purse and two bags filled with clothes from New York and Co., Aeropostale, Children’s Place and Gymboree next to her, Corbeil said.
Lowe was in possession of items from the Gap, totaling $125.
“She admitted she knew the items were stolen, but that Hicks had stolen them and that she was just holding the bag for her,” Corbeil said.
After getting permission to search their vehicle, police found stolen items from the Baby Gap Factory, which was confiscated for evidence. Hicks and Lowe were then transported to the Warren County Jail.
While en route, a 2-year-old child that had been with Hicks appeared to be in some pain, Corbeil said. When they looked in the child’s diaper they found “what was about a 7-inch-long screwdriver and pry tool,” he said, noting Hicks used to tool to pry sensors off of stolen items and had apparently hidden it on the child when approached by police.
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