Around 2:00 PM on June 8, 2024, Officers Tyrone Huggins and Marco Grossman with the Hoboken Police Department responded to a report of a shoplifting at ShopRite on 900 Madison Street. The officers entered the store and walked upstairs to the loss prevention office. In the loss prevention office, they met with the alleged shoplifter, who was identified as 31-year-old Hallie Pickard. Felix informed Officer Huggins that this was not her first time stealing from this ShopRite because she had previously been flagged by their facial recognition system. When she was asked about Felix’s allegations of prior incidents, she insisted that any prior instances of taking items from the store were not intentional. Loss prevention officials observed Hallie placing items inside a personal bag while attempting to leave the store by only paying for the other items that were in her shopping cart. The total value of the items that she had attempted to steal was determined to be $415.87. Based on the value of the items she had stolen, the store decided to press charges against her. Hallie was placed under arrest, handcuffed, and escorted to the patrol car. She was transported to the Hoboken Police Department by the officers for further processing. At police HQ, she was searched in more detail by a female officer. She was charged with shoplifting under 2C:20-11 and released pending her court appearance. ---------------------------------------------- Please LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and consider supporting this channel (email us for more information). Donations will be used to acquire more public footage related to law enforcement activities. Our content is educational and in compliance with YouTube's Fair Use Policy because we edit several long clips into a concise story. This is similar to other law enforcement channels on YouTube. All videos and case documents were obtained pursuant to the New Jersey Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq. (P.L. 2001, c. 404). Defendants are considered innocent until proven guilty. The New Jersey Supreme Court has previously affirmed in Salzano v. North Jersey Media Group, 993 A.2d 778 (2010) that “The fair-report privilege reflects the judgment that the need, in a self-governing society, for free-flowing information about matters of public interest outweighs concerns over the uncompensated injury to a person's reputation.” This video advances a compelling public interest. The summary of events was based on records that are “open to public view through open access to public records” as defined in the Salzano case. In Ramos v. Flowers, 429 N.J. Super. 13, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court has also affirmed the right to film law enforcement interactions.

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