Virginia's organized retail theft law begins to bring convictions

First suspects convicted under Virginia's organized retail theft law

The 2023 law states that groups who steal more than $5,000 worth of goods over a 90-day period are guilty of a felony punishable by at least five years in prison

Virginia's organized retail theft law begins to bring convictions

Over the course of more than a year in 2023 and 2024, a trio from Hampton Roads kept coming back to the same Ulta Beauty store in Short Pump to shoplift fragrances.