Lincoln Police arrested three people from Omaha for a string of shopliftings dating back to October. Captain Todd Kocian says the latest incident happened at the Best Buy on at 69th and O Street around Thursday afternoon.
He says two men and a woman walked in around 1:30 and stole two routers and a smart speaker valued at more than $1,000. The trio then left the area in a blue Chevy Malibu. A short time later a Nebraska State Patrol trooper stopped the car on I-80 near Waverly.
28-year-old Khalil Turley, 25-year-old Darren Smith and 22-year-old Ckoriea Bush were arrested for several counts of theft by shoplifting. Kocian says they were involved in a number of thefts in the past three months. The total loss in those cases was more than $14,000.
The items taken from the Best Buy were recovered and the investigation is continuing.