HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A man and two women from the Houston area have been arrested after the Texas Department of Public Safety says they stole $300,000 from Target stores in multiple states.

The thefts took place from February 2024 to September 2025, according to court documents.

Bernard Lane, the man prosecutors refer to as the ringleader of the group, has been charged 70 times in Harris County for things like evading arrest, assault, and DWI.

By 2024, he'd been convicted three dozen times. And yet that same year, when he was arrested for allegedly choking and threatening to kill an ex-girlfriend, court documents show a magistrate allowed him to bond out of jail for $1.

The ex-girlfriend referred to in court documents is Shalondra Gilbert, one of the women charged in connection wi

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