Suspect shoplifts and discards shirts while fleeing, Granite City IL


A suspect shoplifted several t-shirts from a store on near East 23rd and threw them out of a vehicle window while fleeing. Police recovered multiple bags of shirts and took the suspect into custody. The store confirmed they want to press charges.
Audio|Source: Granite, Pontoon, Madison (City), Mitchell, Long Lake
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Transcript:
00:00
I recovered a bag of t-shirt. How many items did he throw out? He said four items.
00:11
Two-five.
00:24
Back in from near East 23rd, we'll be at near East 23rd, near East 23rd.
00:33
And I found a second item so far.
00:45
This is 74,000, 85 are in rounds of Washington.
00:50
Pontoon, Madison 9 for your channel.
00:53
Okay.
00:54
Good.
00:57
No, I forgets.
01:04
Suspects can be wearing some sort of ID badge,
01:09
blue in color kind of jacket top.
01:13
It looks like he took about four to five t-shirts.
01:19
We have them here in custody.
01:21
It even sent a unit this way.
01:25
Two-five.
01:28
Kathy, we'll have one around to you shortly.
01:32
Good.
01:34
Nine, four, four, four, four, three, what are they wanting to do?
01:38
What is (name withheld)'s address?
01:42
Damn it.
01:43
He's your all for average. Two-five. Paying, good on trust.
01:50
Near 23rd. She's next to the red tag one, I believe.
01:56
Did he throw any past the trucking company here at EGA trucking?
02:02
I'm two before EGA.
02:04
Did he throw any out the driver's window?
02:10
I didn't see how the driver's truck.
02:13
Just throw several out of the past your window.
02:18
7-4.
02:24
Okay.
02:26
I've covered two bags so far of shirts.
02:29
When you get a chance, can you check the occupancy for this address we're going to?
02:35
Okay, bye.
02:37
It's approximately four bags of shirts.
02:40
Open south, please.
02:46
Okay, five set forward on twenty-three.
02:49
Okay.
02:51
No, 403.
02:53
It is.
02:57
Are you in route to a pontoon?
03:00
Affirmative.
03:03
That one, thank you.
03:09
Okay, just find out what stores wanting to do with this.
03:17
They're wanting to charge them.
03:20
It's only a couple packs of t-shirt, so...
03:24
Nah, it's already been recovered by Pontoon 2V. She was throwing them out the window.
03:30
She was throwing them out the window.
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Location mentioned:
E 23rd St, Granite City, IL 62040
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