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.
I swear I almost added to my post "Is her dad's name Mike Hunt"? Good ole Porky's.
Ever hear Bart Simpson call Mo's bar asking for people like "Amanda Hugankiss". So Mo is yelling "I need Amanda Hugankiss!" at the top of his lungs.
Possible typo. Probably should be 'fathers' ... 'are'
Lemme hear y'all brothers, itz "REP-PAR-RATE-SHUNS!" I'm talkin' "REP-PAR-RATE-SHUNS!"
Which father? :p
She signed an affidavit agreeing to stay out of WAL*MART. Then they had her arrested. I like their style. WAL*MART is a private business, they can ban anyone they like. The onus is on her to prove they are acting illegally.
“I’m not noways tard!”
And on camera too. They no doubt have the self check lanes monitored uninterrupted, and zoom in on products scanned (or in this case, NOT scanned) all day long. It would be ridiculously easy to bust someone stealing at the self check register.
Anyway, they would have 2 or 3 of a single item, mostly things that didn't weigh much in their hand, scan one or two of them and then put all of them in the bag. Next they would scan a heavy item and put it in the bag. This kept the weight sensors from sensing the light-weight items that didn't get scanned. I saw them do it for I don't know how many items.
I kept waiting for a Wal-Mart security person to meet them after they finished their tally, but I saw them walk right out the door. They did it right under the employee's nose. Amazing. Surely Wal-Mart is aware of this practice and to watch for it. Surely.
You’re on FR during a meeting? LOL
LOL! I am the mother of a former loss-prevention officer at Target. I'm proud, I tell you, proud of my son's service.
Not always.
My husband repairs the self-checkouts and had his blackberry stolen while fixing one last week.
Banning is standard procedure when a thief is caught.
I'm sure you meant her boyfriend and the fathers of the three children are livid!
Oh my, that stinks.
What I meant was, if an actual purchase is taking place and LP is monitoring the register (they have monitors that show the transaction as it is being scanned, just like the registers do on the floor) and watching the customer bag her items, it would be pretty simple to tell if she were scanning everything she bagged.
That was a real Man of God she was running with.
Pretty bad at math to face the amount of trouble she’s in for a couple days pay at work.
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