Attention Walmart shoplifters! Store security is watching the self-checkout, and if you skip paying for stuff, you will get caught. Also, it’s a bad idea to go stealing with illegal drugs on you.
Just before 7 pm, deputies responded to the South Point Walmart for a report that a woman had tried the old two-handed trick where they pick up items in both hands and scan only one of them before putting them in bags and leaving the store.
Security officers stopped the woman and held her for deputies. When law enforcement arrived on the scene, they discovered the woman had six capsules of drugs that turned out to be Adderall that she didn’t have a prescription for.
The store recovered the stolen merchandise and gave deputies a copy of the video from the self-checkout that showed the woman in the act of cheating the scanner. Deputies took her into custody and transported her to the Lawrence County Jail
Deputies were called back about two hours later when a couple swapped price tags on several items and took them through the self-checkout.
While officers were checking the suspect’s IDs, a female suspect took a bottle full of Buprenorphine (which was prescribed to someone else) out of her purse and tried to hide it under her shirt. Officers arrested the pair for shoplifting, and the woman scored extra charges for drug possession and tampering with evidence.
Deputies returned for a third time after another pair of women tried to walk out with bags loaded with merchandise they didn’t pay for. One suspect said she was busy talking on her phone and didn’t realize she’d forgotten to scan items. The other suspects said she knew nothing about it, she was just bagging stuff. Officers cited both women for shoplifting.
The next afternoon, officers arrested a woman and banned her from the store after she was caught on video scanning only half the items in her cart before leaving the store. Security had previously caught the woman shoplifting four times and she’d already been banned from the Barboursville Walmart.
Another Walmart shoplifter had an explanation for her failing to scan hundreds of dollars in merchandise. When a deputy asked why she hadn’t paid, she said, “I needed the money.” Officers took her into custody and booked her into the Lawrence County Jail.