A man who found a wallet at Walmart and decided to keep it found himself in the back of a police cruiser.
Around 8:30 in the morning, a man told officers, he accidentally left his wallet at the service desk at Walmart. When he went back to retrieve it, the wallet was gone, but he thought he passed a man who could have taken it.
A deputy went to the South Point store and viewed security footage that showed a man matching the description given by the victim at the store pocketing the wallet. Officers viewed parking lot video and got the man’s address from his license plate, and went to his home to speak to him.
The man denied taking the wallet at first, but then admitted he moved it from the service desk and left it on some shelves.
Officers put the man in the back of a cruiser and returned to Walmart, where they located the wallet, minus the money in it, on some shelves. He denied taking the money, but officers had a video of him taking the money and putting it in his pocket.
They placed the man under arrest, and he finally admitted to taking the wallet. Deputies booked him into the Lawrence County Jail.
