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EVANSTON, IL – FEBRUARY 17: The Home Depot logo is seen on a shopping cart outside the store February 17, 2005 in Evanston, Illinois. (Photo by Tim Boyle\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.<\/strong> – An organized retail theft group targeting Home Depot stores has been dismantled, leading to three arrests in the metro-Philadelphia area.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Three men are charged with multiple felonies related to thefts totaling more than $50,000. The thefts occurred from May 18 through Aug. 11, 2025, across Montgomery, Philadelphia, Bucks and Delaware counties, according to Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steel.\u00a0<\/p>\n Officials say the group targeted higher-value items at the store like pressure washers, air conditioners, battery starter kits, chainsaws and Shark vacuum cleaners.<\/p>\n Officers executed search and arrest warrants on Aug. 14, 2025, recovering about $10,000 in stolen goods, $2,000 in cash and illegal drugs. The defendants, Balvin Greene, Terrell Jackson and Kristopher Heard, allegedly sold the stolen items at reduced prices through various methods that included “porch sales.”<\/p>\n Montco District Attorney Steele said, “Organized retail theft is not a victimless crime. It drives up costs for consumers, threatens the safety of store employees, and drains resources from our communities.”<\/p>\n Jackson and Greene were arraigned on Aug. 14, 2025, with bails set at $25,000 and $25,077, respectively. Their preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 28, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n “We have been working closely with multiple retailers, including Home Depot, Target, and Lowe’s, to curtail these organized retail crime groups and shut down this illegal activity,” said Steele.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Heard is currently being extradited from New Jersey and will be arraigned upon returning to Montgomery County. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Caitlin Shortridge.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information in this article was gathered from the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n Philadelphia<\/a>Montgomery County<\/a>Bucks County<\/a>Crime & Public Safety<\/a>Delaware County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article EVANSTON, IL – FEBRUARY 17: The Home Depot logo is seen on a shopping cart outside the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,7984,6082,7282,9631,50,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-167064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bucks-county","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-delaware-county","12":"tag-montgomery-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pa","15":"tag-pennsylvania","16":"tag-philadelphia","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115073695430059488","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}