Dallas County Cop Arrested After Surveillance Video Shows Him Shoplifting Several Times in Uniform

by Carlos Miller
PINAC
Jul. 29, 2015

A Dallas County cop was arrested Tuesday on allegations he shoplifted several times from a grocery store while in full uniform.

Darrell Moore, who makes more than $58,000-a-year, would walk into the Tom Thumb grocery store in Garland, make some purchases and help himself to items on display on his way out.

The store’s surveillance system has video of him shoplifting on at least eight separate occasions, but those charges were reduced to a single charge of shoplifting under the unspoken Blue Privilege code.

Because he was a cop, police were unable to just make an arrest as they would do to anybody else once presented with video evidence.

Instead, they began an “investigation” that lasted from May 4 to June 16, which left them no doubt that he was shoplifting.

But Moore was apparently tipped off that he was being investigated and called a lieutenant from the Garner Police Department to inform him everything was just a “misunderstanding” and that he had made arrangements with employees to add the stolen items to his total bill.

But when Garner police spoke to employees, they learned that was not the case.

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