SD stores report Ku Klux Klan cards in merchandise
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - Some stores in Rapid City are on alert for a return visit by whoever stuffed Ku Klux Klan literature into merchandise last month.
The Rapid City Journal says Walmart, Scheels and Best Buy reported to police that they were targeted by what is believed to a group of people slipping cards declaring South Dakota as "Klan country" into items on store shelves.
Officials say other stores might have been targets for the white supremacist literature, as well.
Police say detectives are working with stores and studying video surveillance tapes but no formal case has been opened. Police are encouraging stores to pursue trespassing charges if they catch anyone because a trespass warning must be issued and then violated before police can make an arrest.
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