North Stafford, Va. — Authorities in Stafford County say they have three people in custody who have previously eluded sheriff’s deputies and security officers at big box retail stores.
Sheriff’s deputies were called to the Target store at Stafford Marketplace off Va. 610 in North Stafford at 3:09 p.m. Wednesday, after the store’s loss prevention officer reported seeing a man place a Bose surround sound system in his cart and head to the back of the store.
The same man fit the description of someone who just two days earlier at a Target store in south Stafford put a Bose system in his cart, and left with it through a rear employee entrance. The man placed it in a white Ford Ranger pickup with a ladder rack and left, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
On Wednesday, the loss prevention officer at the Target in North Stafford also told deputies he saw a white Ford Ranger with a ladder rack sitting outside his store.
The suspect this time left the store without the surround sound system, and fled to the parking lot where he was later spotted getting into the white truck and leaving, said Kennedy.
A deputy followed the truck onto Va. 610 and stopped the vehicle. After questioning the three occupants inside the truck – one of them who matched the description of the man who had been inside the store – all three were charged, said Kennedy.
Mark King, 42, of Douglas Street in Fredericksburg, Timothy Trigger, 44, of Trigger Lane in King George, and Janet Ivy, 45, of Colonial Beach, all face grand larceny charges, said Kennedy. All three also face larceny charges in connection with the theft at the south Stafford Target store earlier this week, said Kennedy.
All three were held at the Rappahannock Regional Jail.
Kennedy said King, the man who was inside the Target store, is believed to have not taken the surround sound system after receiving a call on his cell phone alerting him to the sheriff’s deputies’ presence.
