Welcome to Arrest Stories. A fifty-three-year-old criminal justice professor faces felony theft charges after allegedly stealing trading cards from a Target store in Saline County. Here's what may have happened.
On February first, police were dispatched to Target after six thirty p.m. following reports of shoplifting. According to police reports, Derrin Troy Broome entered the Target store and picked up eleven boxes of Topps trading cards. Broome then walked around the store, removed the trading card packs from the boxes, and concealed the packs on his person before leaving the store without paying for the merchandise.
The total loss from the February first incident was approximately six hundred and fifty dollars in trading cards. However, store employees recognized Broome from previous visits and informed police that he had committed similar thefts four times between January fifth and January twenty-ninth. In each of those previous instances, Broome allegedly used the same method, picking up multiple boxes of Topps trading cards, removing the individual packs from the boxes, and concealing them before leaving without payment.
The repeated nature of the alleged thefts elevated the charges against Broome. What makes this case particularly notable is Broome's professional background. He worked as an associate professor who taught criminal justice classes at Kansas Wesleyan University.
The investigation revealed a pattern of behavior spanning nearly a month, with the suspect allegedly returning to the same Target location multiple times to commit similar thefts. Store security and employees were able to identify Broome across the multiple incidents, leading to his eventual arrest.
Broome was among eleven individuals arrested and booked into the Saline County Jail on February sixth. The case highlights an unusual situation where someone who taught about the criminal justice system now finds himself navigating it as a defendant.
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