Investigations into thefts and random malicious damage offences have continued to take up police time in Dubbo.
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Businesses in the centre of the city have been the hardest hit by thieves in recent weeks, although one managed to recover stolen items after confronting the thief who took them.
On April 24 a woman walked into the Harris Scarfe store and walked out with a cooler bag, quilt and sheet sets worth $617.
A staff member followed the woman out of the Macquarie Street store and stopped her on Wingewarra Street, where he asked her to produce a receipt.
"She stated she did not have it and that her sister purchased it," acting Orana Mid-Western Police District crime coordinator Sergeant Amanda Trindall said.
"After saying 'I'll go get the receipt' she has never been seen again."
Sergeant Trindall said the woman was described as being of Aboriginal appearance, between 155 to 175 centimetres tall with a heavy build and black hair.
She was wearing a khaki coloured top and black tights, Sergeant Trindall said.
Bad behaviour
- On Easter Sunday, two women were seen on CCTV taking spirits off a shelf at Dan Murphy's, before placing them in a pram.
- On the same day CCTV footage also captured someone punching a Rams grocery shop sign out the front of the store.
- On April 22, a woman stole a Canterbury Bulldogs hoodie from the Smokemart store in Dubbo square. Police believe the same woman stole the same jumper from the same store on April 2.
- A lock on a cargo container belonging to the Sportsmans Warehouse store was cut in the middle of the day on April 24.
- A Toyota Hilux was taken from a Fitzroy Street address during the night of April 24. It was found burnt out on April 26 at Goonoo Forest.
- Windows at two Pegasus Place properties were smashed on April 24.
- The window of another Toyota Hilux was smashed between April 25 and April 26 on Dalton Street.
- Cash, sunglasses and binoculars were stolen from a Victorian visitors unlocked car, parked at the Ibis Hotel on Victoria Street between April 26 and April 27.
- Anyone with information that could assist police is urged to call 6883 1599.
