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Shoplifter pulls knife at Target store

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Jan 24, 2013 at 3:00 pm

ST. Cloud, Minn. (KNSI) St. Cloud police are looking for a shoplifter who stole electronics merchanside from the east side Target store, and then pulled a knife on the store's loss prevention officer before he fled the scene.

Sergeant Jason Burke says it happened just before 11:30 this morning at the Target store in the 100-block of Lincoln Avenue Southeast.

He says the suspect displayed a folding knife with the blade extended toward the loss prevention officer, and then left the scene in a white mini van, possibly a Dodge, with a dark luggage rack on the roof.

The suspect is described as a white male in his early to mid 20's. He was wearing a dark blue coat and a dark blue hoodie with white lettering on the front.

The Target employee was not injured in the altercation.