Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announces arrest of $2 million retail crime pair, calls for more prison space
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announced the arrest of a Cleveland County couple for $2 million in organized retail theft in a Thursday news conference.
Griffin said Andrew Sellwood and Robyn Rosamond-Sellwood are facing charges of felony theft by receiving. He said the couple were part of a larger group that had developed a scheme to steal money from Home Depot using gift card data.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announces recent arrests, successes of retail organized crime alliance
Griffin said it was the single largest and most significant “bust” in his office’s retail crime investigations. Griffin said he expects the thefts to range beyond Home Depot. His office, in clearing out the pilfered goods held by the couple, “filed two large moving trucks,” he said.
Griffin said the network the pair were a part of is still being investigated.
Griffin used the example of this arrest to explain why the state needed a new prison.
“Misdemeanor justice is eliminated from our criminal code,” the attorney general said.
AG Griffin announces arrests in organized retail crime investigation
He continued to explain that nonviolent offenders, such as Sellwood and Rosamond-Sellwood, would be the “first people released” due to prison overcrowding. Griffin said this extends down to county jails, as misdemeanor offenders know they won’t have to serve time because of jail overcrowding—including state inmates waiting for space at a penitentiary to open up.
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