Multiple Suspects Arrested In CHP Operation Targeting Northern California Organized Retail Theft Ring

CBS Bay Area

December 24, 2025

A California Highway Patrol task force this month arrested 13 people and recovered over $800,000 in stolen merchandise in connection with an organized retail theft ring that operated across Northern California.

The CHP Valley Division's Organized Retail Crime Task Force, which includes investigators from the Sacramento Police Department and the Placer County District Attorney's Office, was alerted in September to a pair of retail theft suspects operating in Placer County and at multiple other locations throughout the state, the agency said in a press release.

On October 1, the Rocklin Police Department located the suspects with help from the Valley Division ORCTF. The suspects identified others who were purchasing stolen merchandise from them and reselling it for profit at flea markets in Oakland, San Jose, Galt, Modesto and Stockton, the CHP said.

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