Alleged Walmart shoplifter tried to escape Bibb deputy on electric shopping cart, cops say
Some allegedly shoplifted Walmart loot included books, clothes, groceries and movies. Security cameras at the Walmart on Zebulon Road in northwest Macon were said to have recorded footage of two Butts County women at one of the store’s checkouts paying for some items but not paying for others. It is a common pilfering ploy. A Bibb County sheriff’s deputy sent to handle the Oct. 21 incident later wrote in a report that as he was rounding up the women at the store’s security office, one of the women took off on her electric buggy, “placing a bag of unpaid merchandise in the women’s restroom” before returning to the office. The deputy ordered the woman, 56, to stay put so he could tally how many items might have been shoplifted. That’s when the woman riding the shopping buggy “started to roll herself out of the store to go to the parking lot,” the deputy’s report said. “She was given another verbal command to stop, and she refused. … I grabbed the back of her (buggy) to stop her. She turned around grabbing my wrist demanding to let her go. … She continued to try and get my hands off of her.” She was then handcuffed but refused to drive the buggy back into the store, the write-up went on. “I explained to her why she was being detained and she eventually rolled herself back into the store.” The women were jailed on felony-shoplifting charges and the one who was said to have tried to slip away was cited for obstruction. The deputy noted that while the pair had paid for $90 worth of merchandise, the two had tried to leave with $805 worth of unpaid-for wares.
Dispatches: An Oct. 21 sheriff’s report mentions an incident described as a “fight/disorderly conduct” at a Subway eatery in Macon. Two women in their mid-20s, roommates, were said to be bickering about “deep-rooted issues of noise and sex occurring in” their apartment. A sheriff’s deputy spoke to both to try and “put an end to this bitterness” between the women and told them to “leave each other alone until someone decides to move out.” . . . On Oct. 9, a 48-year-old man was arrested at the Family Dollar at 800 Pio Nono Ave. after he was reportedly seen “concealing two plastic containers of Gain liquid soap down the front of his pants,” a sheriff’s write-up noted. “He also concealed one set of bathroom mats down his pants.”