Inspector William McHale of the Nassau County police said the frequency of the crimes that historically plague shopping malls, like purse snatchings and car thefts, has declined in the last year, while the number of shoplifting arrests has increased.

Over the four years, shoplifting arrests decreased 61 percent, and felony drug arrests increased 394 percent.

Her only brush with the law, according to officials here, is an old shoplifting arrest.

And while most producers deny setting out to dig up dirt, shows like "True Hollywood Story" have proved the popularity of cat fights, drug problems and shoplifting arrests.

According to the district attorney who prosecuted her, four years earlier in Nebraska, she claimed police had roughed her up during a shoplifting arrest.

Her fingerprints couldn't be changed, and there was that shoplifting arrest when she was in college.

And if they found that she had changed her name, the shoplifting arrest might explain it.

Since Mr. Speziale's release from jail on his latest shoplifting arrest, he had been living at a halfway house in Paterson, the Good Shepherd Mission.

Having a celebrity in your building - depending, of course, on whether her credits include a shoplifting arrest - can increase the value of your apartment, according to brokers at half a dozen Manhattan firms.

Couple of drug pops and a bunch of shoplifting arrests and domestic beefs.