Alleged mango, banana thief caught at Walmart checkout scanner in Macon, cops say
A woman was arrested earlier this month for allegedly using a bit of trickery to steal fruit from a Walmart on the city’s northwest side. About noon on Dec. 6, a Bibb County sheriff’s deputy answered a shoplifting call at the Zebulon Road store, where the woman had been detained by store employees. The deputy watched security-cam footage that was said to show the woman, 61, standing at a self-checkout counter. The deputy’s report said the woman would set one of the items from her shopping cart on the side of the checkout scanner and then, after scanning other similar items, place the unscanned item in a grocery bag. The woman was allegedly seen watching a store clerk, waiting until the clerk turned her head to slip the pilfered item into a bag. “I also observed (the woman) place mangos on the scanner and type in that they were limes,” the deputy’s report said. “Which both are priced differently. I did observe (the woman) place a bulk of bananas on the scale while holding another bulk in her hand, slightly off the scale making it appear that both were on the scale.” The deputy found 16 unscanned items in all — worth a total of nearly $75 — in the woman’s shopping cart. Before being jailed on a misdemeanor shoplifting charge, the woman was said to have told the deputy she would have paid for all the merchandise, but that she sometimes forgets what she is doing and has “memory loss.”
Dispatches: A man who reportedly tried to fight an Uber driver who dropped him off at a Flash Foods mart on Mercer University Drive about 3 a.m. on a recent morning was jailed on charges that included disorderly conduct and public drunkenness. The man, 24, had also, according to the report, gone into the store and “created a scene by knocking things over.” . . . About 1:30 a.m. on Dec. 10, a woman on Captain Kell Drive in north Macon heard what she later told a sheriff’s deputy was the “sound of breaking glass.” But she said she ignored it because “she thought it may have been the sound of her son playing video games in his room.” Later, the woman woke to find a kitchen window shattered. The deputy’s report said “it is unknown who could have done it.” . . . A 30-year-old man informed the cops of a Dec. 2 fight he’d had with his boyfriend on Hillcrest Avenue. The man reporting the dispute wasn’t much worried about the fighting, the deputy’s report said, but rather about the couple’s PlayStation 4, which had been dropped and damaged when one of them tried to climb out a window.