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For: Real America News Updated 27 Jan 2022, : 56 pm EST
A surveillance video recently released shows a prolific thief arrested in downtown Seattle after he stole a television from 70 inches from a Target store last month, which, according to security personnel, was his theft number 22 in that same store in just three months.
The criminal career of John Ray Lomack, aged 55, believed to be a person homeless, dates back years 80.
Lomack was caught on camera loading a store television into a shopping cart and leaving the store without paying.
Store employees estimate that he has stolen the equivalent of $6,000 dollars worth of items from this same Target store since October, at 22 different thefts; it is unknown what items he has stolen.
At least three security guards are seen trying to stop Lomack from pulling the TV out, in a moment preventing him from going through a revolving door, but they refrain from having physical contact with him and he proceeds to exit through a different door.
The guards security guards have their hands tied as they are told to ‘observe and report’ and not to have physical contact with criminals.
Then he drags the TV down the street, where he meets the police who advise him to “leave the property”.
Lomack refuses, claiming that purchased the item, valued at almost $770 dollars, but was unable to provide a receipt.
The police try to arrest him, but he resists and a “physical struggle” ensues. He was eventually arrested and later charged with theft, reported the station 770 KTTH Radio.
Judge Kuljinder Dhillon, who is notoriously lenient on homeless criminals, released Lomack without bail in December on a robbery charge. Lomack has also been convicted of at least 000 felony and misdemeanor charges from 2015.
On Wednesday, Lomack was back in court in front of a different judge, Melinda Young, who released him without bail again.
According to reports, the criminal defendant “was medically unavailable” after being exposed to Covid-19 and “will continue to quarantine until her period is over.” It is unclear what charges he faced on Wednesday.
Young, like Dhillon, also has a history of ‘taking it easy’ with criminals homeless, who some argue are responsible for the city’s criminal activity. “The homeless have completely taken over downtown Seattle,” said KTTH host Jason Rantz.
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