California serial thief is found guilty of stealing more than $60,000 in Target ... trends now
A serial thief from San Francisco has been found guilty of stealing more than $60,000 in merchandise at the self-checkout after hitting a Target store 120 times.
Aziza Graves, 43, was convicted of felony and grand theft and 53 misdemeanor counts of petty theft on Friday after she stole over a 13-month period - starting October 3, 2020 and ending November 16, 2021 - from the Target store in the Stonestown Galleria, a shopping mall located North of San Francisco State University.
Graves' trickery involved bringing goods to the self-checkout counter, scanning them and then inserting 'a single coin or bill' into the machine before exiting the store, the District Attorney's office said.
Officers with the San Francisco Police Department said they watched Graves leave the Target store twice after carrying out her scheme. She was later seen selling the stolen goods at the city's UN Plaza, KDVR News reported.
After her November 2021 arrest, San Francisco Police Department Chief Bill Scott called her a 'particularly brazen and prolific retail theft offender.'
Aziza Graves (pictured) was convicted of felony and grand theft and 53 misdemeanor counts of petty theft on Friday after she stole over a 13-month period
Target location at Stonestown Galleria, a shopping mall located North of San Francisco State University, where Aviva Graves visited 120 times stealing more than $60,000 in merchandise
Graves carried out her scheme by using self-checkout kiosks to appear as though she were paying for her merchandise. She would scam the machine by scanning the items, but only submitting cash payments of $1, or sometimes even one cent
Graves is currently not in custody - due to the former DA Chesa Boudin, whose approach to crime was not to prosecute lower-level offenses. Critics had worked getting the 'woke' official out of office and secured a
