Paige Williams reports on a task force of detectives in Los Angeles that’s battling organized retail theft, in which boosted goods often end up for sale online—or commingled on store shelves with legitimate items.
A booster is a professional thief who typically sells to a fence—someone who resells stolen materials. A fence may buy a hundred-dollar drill from a booster for thirty bucks, to resell it for sixty. Or he may pay in drugs.
In 2002, an ex-member of MS-13, Brenda Paz, told the authorities about some of her former associates’ fencing activities, which have reportedly been linked to transactions involving possible affiliates of Hamas and other international terrorist organizations. Paz entered a witness-protection program, but got lonely and resurfaced. Gang members stabbed her to death. She was a teen-ager, and pregnant. Last fall, the C.H.P.
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