Ivey Marie Weiss, 49, of Ocala, was arrested yesterday and charged with shoplifting and engaging in a scheme to defraud after allegedly stealing over $160 in items from the Target store in Gainesville.
I’m surprised that more people don’t know not to FAFO involving Target. When a company has a lab that’s sophisticated enough where LEOs ask for assistance on unrelated investigations, that’s never a good sign.
Unbeknownst to most, Target has a top-rated forensic services laboratory that provides forensic examinations, and assists outside law enforcement with help on special cases.
Target and Walmart both declined to comment for this story, but in a press release from 2012, Target said it volunteers to get involved with with “felony, homicide, and special-circumstances cases.” In 2008, a Target spokesperson told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that a quarter of the cases it worked on were unrelated to the company itself.
I’m surprised that more people don’t know not to FAFO involving Target. When a company has a lab that’s sophisticated enough where LEOs ask for assistance on unrelated investigations, that’s never a good sign.
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https://corporate.target.com/news-features/article/2012/02/an-unexpected-career-target-forensic-services-labo
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/csi-walmart/521565/
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Exactly, I liked how the first link was from Target
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They absolutely do.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2011/10/21/target-forensics-lab
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MPR is MInnesota Public Radio, not ‘some local news blog’, and Target is headquartered in Minnesota.
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yeah ok
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