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PARMA, Ohio -- A shoplifting turns violent at a local department store. The crime and the melee are caught on tape. Police say the suspects range from a 64-year-old woman to an 8-year-old boy.

"The 8-year-old male has a previous selection of baseball caps, those are valued at 25 or 27 dollars a piece," says Parma Police Detective Marty Compton, while explaining the video to Fox 8 News.

Police say the surveillance video shows a mother, her 10-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son shoplifting at the Macy's department store on West Ridgewood Road in Parma Tuesday.

"It's obvious from the proximity of everybody involved there, that mom knows what's going on," says Det. Compton.

Police say the Macy's store in Sandusky had already called to warn the Parma store to lookout for some suspicious customers.

"There's an issue...these people are using bad IDs, fraudulent credit cards to buy gift cards from the store and then exchanging those for purchases," Compton says.

The video then shows the trio walk out of the store with the shopping bags. Security guards follow them out and lead them back into the store. Then police say they start fighting with the security personnel.

"Once you use force in a shoplifting, you've just escalated into a robbery," says Compton.

Police say a 64-year-old woman comes in and joins the melee, then leaves and brings in her 37-year-old son. Everyone gets away and jumps into a silver SUV parked at the curb. But before they can leave, Parma police officers arrive and search the vehicle.

"We've got a couple of computers, we've got credit cards and identification from about half a dozen people and none of it belongs to the people we've arrested," Compton says.

Police arrested 34-year-old Amina Frye, who also goes by Amina Sanders, 64-year-old Diana Burton and 37-year-old Donald Burton...all from Chicago. The two young children were handed over to children's services because they had no local relatives.

"Amina Frye, aka Amina Saunders is doing a great job of grooming her kids to bring up in the same lifestyle that she probably had and I think it's just pathetic," said the detective.

Police say Diana Burton has 32 alias names. They say she and her son have extensive criminal records.

Parma police say they believe the three people, and the children, have committed crimes in Northeast Ohio, the Chicago area and several points in between.