Two Connecticut women, Tyeisha Bridges, 32, and Shatoya Lewis, 25, have been charged with multiple counts of organized retail crime and larceny after a series of thefts at an Old Navy store in Massachusetts, per a statement from Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz.
After being extradited from New York, Bridges and Lewis appeared in Hingham District Court where they pleaded not guilty to the charges, both were recently arrested in New York and then transported back to Massachusetts by Hanover Police detectives to face the allegations levied against them, according to Boston25News.
The Plymouth District Attorney’s office claims that the duo worked together to steal merchandise from the Old Navy store in Hanover on two occasions in the summer of 2024; during the first reported theft on July 9, 2024, Bridges and Lewis are alleged to have been part of a trio seen exiting the store with bags brimming with unpaid clothing items, totaling an estimated $3,950 worth of goods comprising 253 pieces of clothing, as MassLive reported.
Details provided by officials recount another theft on August 20, 2024, involving items valued around $920, exacerbating the total loss to Old Navy due to the reported criminal activity, while Bridges was assigned a cash bail of $4,000, Lewis’s bail was set at $6,000, both numbers fall far below the prosecutor’s requested $50,000 for each defendant.
The two are scheduled to return to court on April 29 for a pre-trial hearing and as this remains a developing story, further updates are expected as new information surfaces.
