Police used Walmart surveillance video to establish a timeline of events and just like in Overland Park, the store ranks first on the list for calls to Shawnee PD three years in a row.Īs of last month, cops have shown up to the Walmart 152 times so far this year.
US Highway 40Įarlier this month, a Good Samaritan shot and killed a man after the man allegedly attacked a mom with her baby in the parking lot of the Walmart on Maurer Road near Shawnee Mission Parkway. In 2014, there were 97 calls to the 40 Highway Walmart and the year before that, 91 calls. According to the department, the store ranked 16th on the service call list with 123 calls. KCPD say a thief targeted the Walmart Supercenter on Highway 40 demanding money at gunpoint. Instead of arresting her, the officer paid for the items she stole.įigures from Roeland Park Police show officers responded to that store 344 times in 2015, down slightly from the 366 calls the year before. Last summer, a Roeland Park mom made headlines after she stole $300 worth of goods. Just this year, a gunman shot a man at an Olathe Walmart and stolen credit cards were used at a Lenexa Walmart, plus multiple bomb threats have been called in. "There are career criminals that that's all they do is go to the store and steal them blind and they'll go to another store and they'll return it and get the money back for whatever they brought in depending on the policy," Guieb said. Target didn't make the list.Īs for the Walmart at 117th and Metcalf - 641 calls, followed by the Walmart Supercenter at 157th and Metcalf with 584 calls. That's compared to all of Oak Park Mall - with 870 calls since 2013.
The Walmart on Guieb's beat is the number one business Overland Park police have been called out to - with 923 calls since 2013. "A lot of times I’ll do reports in the parking lot, I think just being visible may help deter crime," Guieb said. Guieb starts many of her shifts driving thru the parking lot of the Walmart at 7701 Frontage Road right off I-35 near 75th Street.
"Occasionally there'll be some homeless people who go in and they don't want to leave.” "Typically when they call us, it's because there's been a shoplifter,” said Officer Debra Guieb with the Overland Park Police Department. However, 41 Action News discovered that stores in the metro often rely on local police departments instead of private security to keep stores safe. Walmart's in-house security, or loss prevention officers, help keep prices low by watching out for shoplifting. "We know that economically our dedication is to being a low price leader," Josh Williams, a Walmart store director said. It's something one store director touted at a recent grand re-opening of the Walmart Supercenter on Highway 40 in Kansas City. Walmart is a retail giant that's committed to low prices.
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