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  At noon Jan. 7, the customer’s wallet was taken from her purse, which was sitting atop her shopping cart. She noticed the theft when she went to check out.

  At about the same time, the victim’s credit card company called and told her the card was used to make $2,800 worth of purchases at the Target store in San Luis Obispo. The suspects then used the debit card at the Apple Store to make $1,800 in purchases.

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  Rudy Benink doesn’t usually speak in Dutch, though sometimes, he acknowledges, he’ll unintentionally slip back into his native tongue.

  He did just that a couple of years ago while inside the San Luis Obispo Costco store. And as he spoke to his wife in Dutch about solar panels, a man standing nearby couldn’t help but eavesdrop.

  “It’s not often when you hear your old language spoken,” Pieter Menting said.

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