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Charlie Anderson went from St. Paul patrol to investigative police work in 2011 and, as he followed up on shoplifting reports, he realized some weren’t as simple as a person slipping merchandise into their pocket and walking out the door. “There’s something else going on here,” he thought. As he talked to other law enforcement and retailers, he said his eyes were opened “to this world” of ...

Over recent months, shopping malls in the Charlotte area have seen several incidents of criminal activity, which is part of a larger wave of offenses committed at other malls in large urban areas throughout the U.S. Crime is not a new phenomenon at Charlotte’s Northlake Mall, as the mall has been host to shootings and