Anenide Cherry
Posted on 07/26/2007 9:29:23 AM PDT by SkyPilot
PALM BAY, Fla. -- A 33-year-old mother was banned from a Brevard County Wal-Mart and will face a judge after police said she used her three children to help bag over $300 in stolen merchandise in a self-checkout lane, Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported.
Anenide Cherry
Anenide Cherry was charged with retail grand theft over the weekend after Palm Bay police were called to the Wal-Mart located at 1040 Malabar Road to investigate a complaint from the assistant managers, reports showed. She will go to court Aug. 17 on the charge, according to court records.
Palm Bay police said the store's loss-prevention officers spotted Cherry and her children, ages, 6, 12 and 15, in line at the self-checkout counter bagging items that were passed across the conveyor belt without being rung up.
Police said the children assisted their mother in stuffing the unidentified items in the white shopping bags before a loss-prevention officer walked up.
Cherry paid $113 in goods but had a total of $400 worth of stolen merchandise sitting in her cart, police said. Cherry was stopped while a male companion accompanying her bolted out the door, according to reports.
The three children were turned over to their grandmother who lives in Melbourne, reports showed.
Cherry was able to keep the items she paid for but had to sign an affidavit not to enter that Wal-Mart again. After signing the document, she was arrested, police said.
She was booked and taken to the Brevard County Jail in Sharpes.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
Not my wife? Son of a %$#@$
Five finger discount?
I am sure the three kids will turn out to be great citizens.
Euphemism of the week right there.
No more trips to WalMart? That’s cruel and unusual punishment ain’t it??? LOL.
Why stop at Walmart? Ban her from going into any store.
She was just training her children. She got life, boy that’s tough.
I wish I could get banned from women’s clothing and shoe stores.
“Honey, I’d love to go shopping with you, but that darned court order.....”
WalMart Ping...........
Wanna bet she steals from us every month in the form of welfare payments?
In the old days, retailers had to protect themselves from “underringing” where cashier and customer were both in on the scam and few predetermined expensive items were not in those days rung up on the cash register. But in today’s high tech world the middleman has been eliminated and robbing your local Walmart can become a family affair.
...and it's too late to unring that bell, what the parent taught them.
Her boyfriend went with her to WalMart! Chivalry is not dead!
Kids do what you do, not what you say for them to do.
She must not have noticed the employee standing by the self checkout. Did she actually think she wasn’t being WATCHED? Sheesh.
I’ll bet her husband and the father of the three children is livid!
Our local Walmart & a few other stores take pictures of shoplifters and ban them from stores. A guard will escort them right back out the door if they catch them inside & this is without any judge’s orders.
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