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John Harris V. Home Depot U.S.A. On October 10, 2001 at 10:30AM a customer named John Harris was shopping at the Home Depot store located at 50-10 Northern Boulevard in Long Island City, New York. The security guard, Joseph Degurre, was on duty at the time of the alleged offense. Joseph Degurre, an off duty police officer and was given written and signed permission by his higher authority to have the security officer position at Home Depot as a “moonlighting” or secondary job. Mr. Degurre was hired for undercover surveillance in plain clothes. Mr. Degurre followed Mr. Harris and kept a distance of an aisle length, in order not to be detected by Mr. Harris who was acting suspicious while examining a Dewalt drill selection that was of a high retail value in the Tool Coral. Under the penal law, a retailer will meet reasonable cause standards when they rely on eyewitness reports or surveillance to substantiate a suspect’s taking store merchandise or other suspicious conduct. At the Home Depot the highest shrink area is the Tool Coral, which has desirable items at the highest retail price, such as power tools, hand tools, and special accessories. A large majority of these items are large, but some premium pieces such as