The Chico Police Department arrested three people accused of shoplifting Aug. 4 at the shopping center near 700 Mangrove Ave. in a coordinated operation with its Target team supporting Safeway and Heel & Sole, both of which have been “heavily impacted by shoplifting,” according to a news release Wednesday.

Police officers arrested Scott Hall, 56; Amado Ramses Alvarez-Carrillo, 26; and D’Angelo Lynch, 43, “back-to-back” at the shopping center, “even as units were parked right outside the front doors,” according to the release.

The three were booked into the Butte County Jail on suspicion of shoplifting; in addition Alvarez-Carrillo and Lynch are suspected of petty theft with two prior convictions.

The department stated that the incidents were “an alarming display of both the suspects’ br

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