On March 9th, 2026 at approximately 05:21 P.M., Officers of the Pocono Township Police Department dispatched a retail theft in progress to the Old Navy store at the Crossings Outlets. While on scene employees identified Ashley Richards, of Hartford Connecticut, as stealing approximately $1,200.00 dollars' worth of clothing items from the store. Officers detained the defendant and the subsequent investigation determined found that she used a device to remove security tags and stole the items in her possession.

The defendant was placed in the Monroe County Correctional Facility on felony retail theft, possessing an instrument of a crime and resisting arrest.