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Vancouver police Detective Jason Nicholson sat in an unmarked car in a parking lot across the street from the Cascade Park Fred Meyer on Wednesday afternoon and waited for a radio signal from his sergeant.
The signal came a few hours into the department’s retail theft patrol emphasis; loss prevention employees inside the store had spotted someone they suspected didn’t intend to pay for the items she’d shoved under her clothes.
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