NEWARK, N.J. (AP) A man likened by police yesterday to theCharles Dickens villain Fagin organized 75 New York City boys into agang of thieves and supplied them with a manual targeting designerclothing at malls in four states.
Authorities in New York and New Jersey said boys from a Brooklynneighborhood shoplifted up to $800 worth of clothes apiece onweekends in exchange for money and drugs from the ringleader.
Most of the thieves, believed to be from 11 to 14 years old,carry knapsacks full of old clothes and exchange them for new ones instore fitting rooms, Paramus, N.J., Police Chief Joseph Delaney said.
Police would not say whether they had identified …
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