MyDry Blowout Bar is a salon in Jacksonville Beach.
MyDry Blowout Bar is located at 2403 3rd Street South in Jacksonville Beach.
MyDry Blowout Bar has served customers at the Beaches for years. In a 2024 profile, News4JAX described it as a salon led by two sisters that had been operating in the area for nearly a decade. The theft is notable given the business's local presence, even though the reported amount is modest compared with some other retail cases in the city.
Part of a Pattern of Retail Theft Appeals
This is far from the only such appeal Jacksonville Beach police have issued this year. Action News Jax previously reported that officers sought help identifying a suspect in a separate Target theft in February, that time involving merchandise valued at $1,348.99. Another case saw suspects flee a Target on Marsh Landing Parkway with $449.99 in merchandise on September 21, reportedly escaping in a Kia SUV.
Beauty retailers in particular have been hit repeatedly. Police sought a suspect accused of stealing $1,001 worth of merchandise from the Ulta Beauty at 3928 3rd Street South, the same store where a December 18, 2025 incident involved $1,271 in stolen goods. An earlier case at that address, from November 29, 2025, involved two suspects who allegedly used a black purse to conceal more than $1,200 in merchandise. A separate Marshalls theft on May 29 allegedly netted two suspects $949.75 in goods after one distracted store security, the same reporting noted.
A separate case does not show a citywide trend
In a separate Jacksonville Beach case, police linked 24 thefts at the local Home Depot between Jan. 2 and April 9 to an investigation involving more than $22,000 in merchandise, and five people were arrested, according to News4JAX. That store-specific count over a defined period does not establish a citywide annual trend. The verified reporting here does not include Jacksonville Beach Police Department annual-report totals or Florida Department of Law Enforcement data for comparison.
National Numbers Show a Different Trend
The string of local cases comes even as shoplifting nationally appears to be easing somewhat. A National Retail Federation survey found that average in-store shoplifting incidents declined by 12.4% between 2024 and 2025, a trend that stands in contrast to the steady drumbeat of theft appeals coming out of Jacksonville Beach in recent months.
It remains unclear whether any of these separate retail theft cases are connected to one another or to the MyDry Blowout Bar incident. For now, Jacksonville Beach police are focused on identifying the person pictured in connection with the October 18 theft, and they're counting on the public's eyes to help close the case.
