Dhir Patel, a 22-year-old man, was caught stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of designer clothes in a calculated manner from a Wynwood neighborhood in Miami, Florida. He did not flee after stealing the clothes but came back again and again and continued stealing between March 30 and last Monday. Investigators with the Miami Police Department said Dhir Patel would visit the store “to sell items” in exchange for money. And at the same time, he used to steal some clothes and hide them as seen in the surveillance cameras which were tracked after the shopowner found out that some very costly items were missing.Investigators said he stole about $41,550 worth of designer goods, but the owner estimated later that it could be much more.“We originally started at $41,000 since we’ve calculated it up, it’s about $55-to-60,000 now,” owner Louis Negrich later told Local 10 News, as he added that Patel also made some purchases from the high-end shop and that’s why his movement did not initially raise an alarm.An MPD arrest report stated that Patel, of Boynton Beach, “would walk throughout the store selecting merchandise” during his visits and detectives said “CCTV footage reportedly shows the subject concealing clothing items inside a bag he brought with him.”MPD officers said they arrested Patel on a grand theft charge on Saturday after he came back to the store to sell more items. Authorities said he made a confession, which was redacted from the publicly released report. “Just don’t steal,” Negrich said. “It’s just as simple as that. It’s just, everything comes back to bite you.”Court records show Patel posted a $5,000 bond and was released from jail.
