Tearia Delores Forrest

On April 17, 2026, Bloomington Police Officers responded to a theft report from TJ Maxx, 7982 Southtown Ctr, Bloomington, Hennepin County. Loss Prevention reported that an individual, later identified as TEARIA DELORES FORREST, Defendant herein, was observed on surveillance cutting off the sensors to merchandise with a dermaplaner razor - which is a specialized, single-edge, guarded razor designed to exfoliate the skin and remove hair. After cutting off the tags with the razor, the Defendant concealed the merchandise and continued to rip off tags to a total of five items.

The value of the items was $159.58. Loss Prevention located an opened package of dermaplaner razors in the store that appeared to be what the Defendant used to remove sensors from merchandise. The Defendant passed all points of sale without attempting to purchase any of the items and then was stopped by Officers. All of the merchandise was recovered. The Defendant was searched incident to arrest at the jail where a white folded up paper containing suspected narcotics was located. The substance FTP for methamphetamine and weighed 0.2 grams.

The Defendant has active warrants and is currently in custody.