Pair accused of swiping $30K in luxury cosmetics over a 2-day road trip
A pair from Everett traveled through Eastern Massachusetts "systematically" stealing luxury cosmetics and skincare products, ultimately totaling more than $30,000, prosecutors said Friday as they announced criminal charges.
Morin Denisse Sanhueza Diaz, 31, and Kevin Andres Guzman Bernal, 22, carried out the thefts over a two-day July road trip to a half-dozen Ulta Beauty stores, the office of Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz said in a statement.
"The pair traveled from Everett to Hingham, Braintree, Westwood, Taunton, Dartmouth and Fall River, systematically stealing 'prestige brand products including Benefit, Dior, Chanel, Fenty Beauty, and NARS," the statement said.
Surveillance footage at each store showed Diaz slipping boxes of cosmetics into a tote bag while Bernal served as a lookout and tucked additional items into his waistband, prosecutors wrote. The suspects wore identical clothing during each of their stops.
A Plymouth County grand jury indicted each of them on a single felony count of larceny over $1,200, Cruz said.
The investigation into the thefts was jointly led by the police departments of Hingham, Fall River, Taunton, Everett and Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and Warwick, Rhode Island, with help from corporate loss-prevention representatives.
Diaz is in custody out of state, while Bernal is being held at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility. Authorities did not say when they would appear in court.
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