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 with the Target theft ring.
It’s unclear what relationship Lane has with his other accused accomplice, Alicia Morris. However, court records show they share the same Spring address.
The Target thefts weren’t limited to the Houston area, prosecutors say.
Charging documents from Overland Park, Kansas, show Lane was arrested there for stealing from a Target in July.
After bonding out, Kansas prosecutors say he and Morris stole from three more Targets in Georgia and Alabama on back-to-back days in August. Those thefts totaled $2,000.
The pair stole from four stores in Harris County in September, prosecutors say.
All three suspects are being held in the Harris County Jail.
