Jeffco Sheriff: Knife-wielding shoplifters had child in tow

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. — Investigators in Jefferson County are on the lookout for a couple who allegedly threatened an employee with a knife as they tried to leave the Burlington Coat Factory on Bowles Avenue with a cart full of unpaid merchandise and a child in tow.

The incident happened Dec. 14, 2014 just before 8 p.m.   “A man and a woman were pushing a shopping cart towards the exit without paying for the merchandise,” the sheriff’s office said. “A little girl was riding in the cart. When an employee yelled at them to stop, they ran out of the store taking the cart with them.”

The store employee told police the man pulled a knife on the employee and threatened to stab him if he came any closer. The couple then took the child out of the shopping cart and climbed into a maroon Dodge Durango driven by a woman. They left the merchandise behind.

The man is described as Hispanic, about 5 feet 9 inches tall with short dark hair and the sides shaved short.  At the time of the incident he was wearing glasses, blue jeans, dark long sleeved shirt and dark tennis type shoes with white soles.

The woman is described as Hispanic, dark hair.  She was last seen wearing light pants and a dark winter jacket with a large hood with fur.

Anyone with information on the shoplifting or the shoplifters is asked to call the sheriff’s office tip line at (303) 271-5612.