Warren detective breaks up stolen DVD ring

Warren detective breaks up stolen DVD ring

WARREN — A city detective has broken up a DVD theft ring that had been operating for about six months.

Dominique G. Jordan, 33, of Ferndale Avenue Southwest, pleaded no contest to a charge of receiving stolen property and was found guilty today by municipal Judge Terry Ivanchak.

She was fined $100 and costs, given a 90-day suspended jail sentenced and ordered to forfeit 299 DVDs and $523 cash seized by police during a search of her Second Play Video store at Elm Road and Edgewood Street.

Used videos and video games are sold at the store.

Detective Jeffrey Hoolihan said the two-month investigation revealed that Jordan would tell shoplifters which DVDs she wanted stolen from various stores.

The thieves would then go out, steal them and sell them to Jordan for half their retail price. She in turn would sell them at her store, Hoolihan explained.

Jordan was found guilty of possessing 25 DVDs that were stolen from Sam’s Club, according to the complaint filed against her.

The detective said the stolen merchandise could be recovered from her store because the DVDs were new and still in their packages, as opposed to the used videos she normally peddled.

Some of the shoplifters, Hoolihan said, also have been charged but he declined to name them.