New Wal-Mart Store Keeps Police Busy

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Carl Morgan

16 February 2004 - 10:00am

A Utah community's police department receives a lot Wal-Mart related calls after new store opens.

"Since the Harrisville Wal-Mart Supercenter opened in February 2001 in this community of 4,000, the four-man police department has grown into a six-man urban unit dealing with the influx of Ogden's late-night crowd... [Police Chief Max Jackson] estimates as many as 40 percent of the calls to his department are Wal-Mart-related."

Full Story: To protect and serve Wal-Mart

Source: Ogden Standard Examiner, February 13, 2004

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