Loss prevention officer stabbed by suspect after attempted retail theft in Montgomery County shop: officials

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Loss prevention officer stabbed by suspect after attempted retail theft in Montgomery County shop: officials

By FOX 29 Staff Published December 7, 2024 12:53pm EST FOX 29 Philadelphia



WYNCOTE, Pa. - A loss prevention officer in a shopping center in Wyncote nearly died after he was stabbed during an encounter with a male suspect. … The violent encounter unfolded Friday evening, around 6:30, at a store at Greenleaf at Cheltenham Shopping Center, officials with Cheltenham Township police said.

The male suspect was in the store earlier in the day and attempted a theft. He was stopped by security and left the store, authorities said. … The male suspect returned around 6:30, armed with a knife and stabbed the officer multiple times, before taking off with a woman.

The loss prevention officer sustained life-threatening injuries. … The duo fled the scene on foot, heading toward Philadelphia.

The officer was rushed to an area trauma center and underwent surgery. He is expected to survive.

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1. I see life imprisonment. The only justice I see, other than the fact that the loss prevention mgr. will be able to sue

this person to the moon and back, but these scumbags don't have anything anyways. And get don't get me wrong, someone like this, the stabber, where it's very obvious who it was that did the stabbing should get a mandatory sentence instead of costing taxpayers an arm and a leg to pay for their defense. And if they chose to still fight it, give them a choice of accepting the sentence now or later, when it's doubled in length.

Sure, they get an attorney paid for by the public defender's office but in some cases? Some cases are so clear cut, I don't know. I know that I'm being perhaps a little harsh, but the public defender's office is getting overwhelmed by these sorts of crimes and the punishments being handed out doesn't seem to slow these offenses down any, and guess who gets sued? The poor business that the crook just happened to be in there, and they are usually the ones having to pay out, when in true, it's the defendant's total fault. What is a business to do, search everybody before they come into the business?

If we want to somewhat blame the businesses too, and they are the ones usually paying out for the crook's harm and foul to others, then why not sue the authorities outside the business for allowing these crooks free run? Why not sue the traffic lights that allowed these crooks access into the store?

And all along, the person that got stabbed by the crook will be simply jailed for a while, all the while the attacked person is recuperating, under possible hellish conditions if their injuries are still threatening (even after surgery).

In some places, they don't even try to manhandle the shoplifters anymore. I'd heard this in more than one place too, so it's becoming more and more common. Before long, all of us will suffer because a business won't feel safe to put its goods out for sale, w/o getting robbed blind (and we no longer have a place to go shopping, which I enjoy hands on shopping (not the five fingered discount type of shopping, but the eyeball shopping that a lot of us enjoy).

Oh well, maybe we'll get some sort of gee whiz tech that when a defendant is found guilty of an offense beyond a reasonable doubt, zap that portion of their brain that allows them to think that shoplifting (or any other crimes are allowable in their disturbed mind) and the zapping of the shoplifting center of their brain will revert back to what it should be, no shoplifting allowed!

Of course this means tech probably needs to advance thousands of years more to be able to pinpoint the precise location of the diseased brain to enact. Just pie in the sky stuff here. Just ranting, for an innocent person did get seriously hurt.