Nature of Incident: Husband and Wife Arrested for Organized Retail Theft
Report Number: 18-56932
Location: 2600 Block of Lander Court, Thousand Oaks
Date & Time: April 26, 2018 at 0800 hours
Unit Responsible: Thousand Oaks Police Department Patrol / ECPS Investigations Bureau
(S)uspects, (V)ictims, (P)arty, (D)ecedent City of Residence Age
(S) Elizabeth Hooper
(S) David Hooper
(V) Target
Thousand Oaks
Thousand Oaks
Ventura County /
Los Angeles County
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Narrative:
During the Month of April 2018, Detectives from the Thousand Oaks Police Department began
an investigation of a husband and wife who were working together to commit numerous thefts
from various Target department stores. The husband was identified as local musician, David
Hooper. The wife was identified as Dr. Elizabeth Hooper who works as a pediatrician in Los
Angeles.
Detectives worked closely with Target loss prevention officers and gathered evidence of the
Hooper’s organized retail theft dating back to January of 2018. The Hooper’s completed the
thefts by fraudulently manufacturing bar codes and affixing them to items of greater value. The
Hooper’s would then use the “self-checkout” lanes to surreptitiously pay for the items with the
fraudulent bar codes. Target estimated the Hooper’s stole approximately $2,396.00 worth of
merchandise from Target stores located in Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, and Woodland
Hills.
On April 26, 2018, detectives served a search warrant at the Hooper’s residence located in the
2600 block of Lander Court in the City of Thousand Oaks. As a result of the search warrant,
detectives located evidence of the fraudulent bar code manufacturing as well as several items of
stolen Target merchandise. Elizabeth Hooper was at home during the service of the search
warrant and was arrested and booked into the Ventura County Main Jail without incident for PC
487(a) / Grand Theft and PC 182(a)(1) / Conspiracy. Her Bail was set at $20,000.00. David
CHIEF OF POLICE
COMMANDER TIM HAGEL
SHERIFF
GEOFF DEAN
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Hooper was not in the state at the time of the search warrant service.
On April 30, 2018, David Hooper met with detectives at the Thousand Oaks Police station
regarding the investigation. Hooper was arrested and booked into the East County Jail without
incident for PC 487(a) / Grand Theft and PC 182(a)(1) / Conspiracy. His bail was set at
$20,000.00.
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Prepared by: Sergeant Robert Davidson
Media Release Date: April 30, 2018
Media Follow-Up Contact: Detective Ted Stern
(805) 371-8211
[email protected]
Approved by:
Captain Bill Schierman
Ventura County Crime Stoppers will pay up to $1,000 reward for information, which leads to
the arrest and criminal complaint against the person(s) responsible for this crime. The caller
may remain anonymous. The call is not recorded. Call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477).
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