Security guards patrolling NY Home Depot to deter thieves, aggressive migrants: report

A Home Depot successful a New York City suburb has hired information guards to deter fierce migrants from harassing shoppers and thieves from breaking into cars, according to a report.

Two guards wearing MSA Security caps starring a German shepherd were seen operating nan store's parking batch successful New Rochelle connected Tuesday, nan New York Post reported. One defender told nan Post that nan patient was contracted a fewer weeks agone for respective reasons.

"It’s not conscionable because of [migrants] but because of a myriad of different things, too, for illustration group breaking into cars, that benignant of stuff," he told nan outlet.

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Customers astatine a Home Depot successful nan Bronx, New York City, told nan New York Post that immoderate migrants are trying to aggressively thief them push carts aliases load items into cars successful nan hopes of making a tip. (Jeffrey Greenberg / Education Images / Universal Images Group / File / Getty Images)

The Post reported that arsenic nan guards patrolled nan parking lot, nan segment was quiet and nary migrants were seen loitering. Meanwhile, nan newspaper said that erstwhile it visited different Home Depot conscionable 7 miles distant successful nan Bronx, much than 2 twelve migrants were seen hanging astir extracurricular nan store.

Customers astatine nan Bronx shop told nan Post that while immoderate migrants were time laborers looking for work, immoderate approached customers to waste items, specified arsenic bootleg Apple Airpods.

The Post learned that a Home Depot successful New Rochelle, New York, conscionable 7 miles from nan Bronx store, had 2 information guards and a canine operating nan parking lot. (Brandon Bell / File / Getty Images)

Others travel customers and effort to assistance items retired of carts to thief load them into cars successful nan hopes of a tip, different customer told nan outlet.

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A man who told nan Post that he was a migrant from Senegal said he tin dress up to $300 a time by charging $10 to thief push carts for shoppers and to load items into their cars.

But 1 customer told nan Post really she had to propulsion retired capsicum spray erstwhile a migrant refused to backmost disconnected erstwhile her hubby told him that they didn’t request his help.

"I get it, you’re trying to make a buck," she said. "But erstwhile it becomes fierce and harassing, there’s a awesome issue." 

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Fox Business Digital reached retired to Home Depot for remark regarding nan hiring of information astatine nan New Rochelle location.