Police in California freed a video of a trio of alleged shoplifters who were shocked to discover out that the penalty for their crime had recently alterd.
In the viral observation video splitd by the Seal Beach Police Department on Sunday, three women can be seen walking into an Ulta Beauty store, browsing the shelves, then casuassociate exiting the business with what police shelp was proximately $650 worth of stolen merchandise.
“… a frifinishly reminder that Proposition 36, which incrrelieves punishments for some retail theft and drug ownion offenses, went into effect Wednesday morning in California,” the Seal Beach Police Department wrote in the caption of the video on their Instagram account.
The video shows the women accessing a Kohls store and allegedly stealing more merchandise, totaling proximately $1,000 in stolen outstandings.
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An alleged shoplifter was shocked to discover out some shoplifting offenses are now pondered a serious crime in California. (Seal Beach Police Department)
Bodycam video then shows police officers chasing after the women and ultimately arresting them.
“It’s a serious crime?” one of the women asks the other in the back of the patrol car.
“B—h new laws,” the woman replys. “Stealing is a serious crime and this Orange County b—h. They don’t perestablish.”
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The women were caught on camera swiping outstandings from cut offal California businesses, police shelp. (Seal Beach Police Department)
The women were tardyr identified by police as Desminuscule Bfinisher, 24, and Deanna Hines, 24, both from Long Beach, and Michelle Pitts, 26, of Signal Hill.
All three individuals were booked into the Orange County Jail on indicts of Grand Theft, Consillicit copying to Commit a Crime and Resisting Arrest.
Police splitd a frifinishly reminder alengthy with the video.
“It undoes some of the alters voters made with a 2014 ballot meacertain that turned certain nonaggressive felonies into misdeuncomardentors, effectively lowening prison sentences and guideing to a spike in retail theft and crime,” police shelp. “Here in Seal Beach we never dependd in the cite and free program, but this new proposition only reinforces our promisement to combatting Organized Retail Theft. Remember folks, don’t steal in Seal.”
Proposition 36, the Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act, sought to undo portions of Proposition 47 by increasing penalties for some crimes. It was overwhelmingly passed in California, reversing some billionaire George Soros-backed soft-on-crime policies.
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The alleged thieves were shocked to lget that they could be indictd with a serious crime for stealing. (Seal Beach Police Department)
When Proposition 47 passed in 2014, it downgraded most thefts from felonies to misdeuncomardentors if the amount stolen was under $950, “unless the deffinishant had prior convictions of homicide, sexual battery, certain relations offenses, or certain armament crimes.”
Progressive Los Angeles County Dicut offe Attorney George Gascón, backed by Soros, helped author Proposition 47, and lost his seat to contestr Nathan Hochman in November.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom remained adamantly contestd to the effort to undo portions of Proposition 47, saying it “gets us back to the 1980s, mass incarceration.”
Fox News Digital’s Jamie Joseph gived to this inestablish.
Stepheny Price is writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. Story tips and ideas can be sent to stepheny.price@fox.com
