From hidden items to repeated visits, many Walmart shoplifterss act as if the law doesn't apply to them. Once body cams start rolling and receipts no longer match reality, that confidence quickly fades. Okay. >> Oh no, I'm buying stuff. I sane without warrant for uh for pollution. >> These are the moments when Walmart shoplifters think they can simply walk away after stealing. Let's meet this couple. Have you ever heard a sci-fi level explanation like, "I accidentally put items in my bag but couldn't feel their weight." Or even better, someone admitting they stuffed merchandise into a hoodie pocket simply because they didn't feel like paying. On March 1st, 2025, a couple put on a remarkably calm performance at the exit. Instead of panicking when stopped, they casually presented a cash receipt as if it were a magic wand that erased all suspicion. Unfortunately for them, one receipt doesn't mean everything in their bags was paid for. Hey guys, stop right here. Okay, let's walk back inside. Let's walk back inside. Okay, >> walk right back inside like 3:15. We'll be out with you. >> We just got to verify something. Okay, we're going to walk over here to the corner. >> Did your card decline or something? >> No. >> We pay cash. >> You guys pay cash? Okay, just just stay right stay right here. Okay. Yeah. >> Okay. Do you have any weapons on you? No. >> Okay. >> Can I just make sure you don't have your weapons in here? >> Here's the receipt. I'll take this over here. Turn around. >> What do you got in here? Do you mind if I look? Don't reach. Don't worry about >> charger. Don't reach. >> All right. You got your wallet on you or anything? >> Can I have your ID? >> Can you pull it out for me? >> Where you guys from? around here. >> I'm from Alakwood. >> Let's go to the LP office. Okay. >> The moment police asked to check the bag, Dion instantly switched scripts. She went from audit at another store to accidentally put it in my bag within minutes. The climax came with her final excuse. She claimed she couldn't feel the weight of the cosmetics in her bag. >> So, you had your own handheld basket? >> Yeah. And then once it got like full cuz he was supposed to throw in it, then he just took the basket and threw it in the car. >> Okay. So, who put the the purse in in the [music] carts? >> Would have been you the basket, but like >> Was it in your basket first, though? >> Deon, is there any like cont or any thing from the store in your purse here? No. >> You mind if I just check? Don't reach. Don't reach. Do you mind if I check? >> I say, "Yeah, do mind." I was going to say, >> do you want Can you just show me that there's nothing from >> I was going to say there's literally nothing in here. >> Why Why can't I check the rest of this purse? >> Cuz I mean, I just don't see the really need necessary. Well, I want to make I want if you're saying you didn't steal anything. The only way for me to prove that >> this is this is there. >> This is this is there. >> Yeah, but that's about that's it. >> Okay. I need to verify there's nothing else in there that belongs to a store. So, I need to search this first. That's what I'm saying. >> No, I'm telling you like I'm I'll give you everything that's in there. >> Okay. Can you show me? >> Yeah. I'm going to say this. >> I'm giving you >> this is from there, too? >> Yeah. But that's that's it. This is mine. >> Why was this in your purse? I had it in my hand with my wallet. So, >> did you pay for this? Okay. >> So, other than that, like I'm telling you, everything else that's in here is mine. >> Can you start pulling stuff out and putting it on here then? If you're saying there's nothing else in there, this is mine. >> That's yours. This is not from Walmart. It's from all Walmart, but it's the one on Walkgan >> in Walkgan. Yeah. Okay. This this everything else is like basic cigarettes. More vapes, keys. They don't sol. >> Can you open this up? Everything else that I bought is in there >> that you bought. What's that right there? What's that? >> That's from >> Can you pull that out? >> Yeah. I was going to say that's from Waggan. >> I was at the Waga Walmart yesterday with with a buddy. >> Same guy. >> And you purchased this. Do you have a receipt from this? >> Uh he should have the receipt. >> Stop reaching your purse. Take this out. I I'm not going to look into it, but stop reaching for something. Take this out and just put it on the ground. >> Okay. As I say, I promise you. >> They sell the same thing at Walmart. I got it at the Walmart walk and I got the same thing at Walmart. >> Okay. How much did you pay for this? >> Yeah, it was like $59. >> $59? >> Yeah. Everything. So, everything that got put in a cart was I had a basket that had my stuff in it that when the basket started getting overfilled, he put the basket in the cart. >> Like the handheld basket? >> Yeah, like the handheld basket. He dumped it in the cart. >> All right. And then did you Who paid for what? Who paid for? >> We paid for it to set like together. So like I scanned all >> and then mine was $62 or something like that and then he scanned all the rest of his stuff and it was $88. >> All right, Deon, be honest with me. Cuz they have cameras on each of those selfch checkckout registers when we watch the video footage. Am I going to see you skip scanning any product? Anything. >> I like I said I I everything I scan I put on there. And if I didn't want it, I told him to take it off and I handed it to >> which guy? >> The the one that was standing >> the worker. >> Yeah, the worker. He took every one of How did these end up in your purse? >> I was literally walking with my wallet like this. So like I had it like this. >> No, don't grab them. >> I'm No, I'm just saying like if I had it like this, I was walking like that. >> And you put these in your purse. >> Yeah, I put all of this like that. >> Why did >> I Where did you get this stuff? >> The makeup aisle. >> Okay. >> I wasn't even like I couldn't even feel it when I'm like sitting like this. >> Okay. >> We can't figure out that. But I was going to say that's like5 $6. >> Did you put this stuff in your purse with that stuff right after you picked it up off the aisle or when you were walking out? What? What? An aisle. >> An aisle. Okay. >> I'm pretty >> What's that? >> If you go to the towel aisle right now, I guarantee you the package for that quartz he was talking about in there. >> And it was a cord he was concealing in your guys' cart. >> Uh-huh. I guarantee it. Because he threw something up in the pallet towel I own was like, "Oh, I don't want this anymore." And it looked like a box. >> So you saw him conceal? >> No, but I didn't think it was a I thought he just threw the box back and was like, "I don't want this anymore." He th >> So where did you where did you get this from? Walken. >> Walken. How about this? >> Walk. Walmart. >> Okay. And those two things that you gave to me earlier, you said you took it. >> What else did you take? Cuz Walmart's saying that you skip scan. >> There's pulling it up right now. We're saying you skip scan. >> What did I skip scan? >> That's what we're getting all that information now. And at minimum, you took those two things. Not a big deal, but we got to go through all that stuff. So hang out here with Officer Wre I'll be right back. >> Okay. A man named Charlie wasn't far behind. He was caught hiding two phone chargers in his hoodie pocket. Charlie admitted he opened the packaging inside the store and left it on the shelf. Not to steal, he said, but out of laziness. He also casually insisted he pocketed the items because he assumed the person with him had already scanned them. >> Charles, right? Do you go by Charlie? >> Yeah, Charlie's fine. >> Charlie. Okay. >> I know you've been asked a lot of questions, but here's your opportunity to just be straight with us. Just let me know what happened today, who took what, and what exactly happened. >> Just the phone chargers, but I thought they were going to be already paid for. So that might was by mistake. As far as everything else in the car, I was just a guy. I was just standing there. >> The phone chargers. >> Yeah. >> The packaged phone chargers or the unpackaged one? >> The package. The ones that were in there. >> The loose ones. >> Yeah, >> I think that's >> Okay. So, how how did they come un loose? If they >> I open them cuz I was going to see if they fit the phone. >> When did you open them? >> In the store. But I thought she was going to take care of paying them. >> Okay. That doesn't really make sense to me if you're going to pay for Where's the Where's the package? If you un >> I just threw it cuz I'm lazy and didn't want to. I just put it on a shelf. But I thought she had another one so we could scan too. >> How do you think the store was going to figure out how much these were if you didn't have the package? >> Cuz I was going to I thought that I had another box in here. >> Okay. So, you're telling me you took off the package? Where did you hold these? Where were these at? They were in my pocket cuz I was checking them on my phone. >> Okay. Do you see how this looks looks to us? >> Yeah, I know. I'm take the package out. I won't pay for anything cuz I >> Why did you put this Why did you put this in your in your pocket here? >> Cuz I thought it was already paid for. >> At what point did you put it in your pocket? >> When I was walking in the store cuz I thought >> Out or in? >> No, it was in the store. >> You were walking in the store and you concealed these in your pocket? >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Okay. At any point did you take these out of your pocket at the register? No, I thought the box was in here still cuz I thought I put one box in to scan two of them. >> Okay. But you threw but earlier I did throw on the shelf cuz I was like I just want to be lazy. But I said all this other bottom I didn't know that that was not scanned. They said you could look at the scanner. I was just standing there. But I'll pay for whatever is not paid for. >> So just to make sure I understand it right. You and Devon came in the store together. Who drove? Deon. >> Deon. Okay. Is her car out there? Yeah. Is there anybody else out in the car? I got something. >> What type of car is it? What color? >> Gray. The license plate off here. >> No. Okay. So, you guys come to the store together. What are you trying to get? Like >> I just came here for my phone and I seen the jacket and I'm like, "Okay, I'll get the jacket." >> Are you guys going around the store together or are you guys just going separate ways? >> Uh, kind of like half and half. >> Half and half. Okay. Don't Don't answer that right now. I got to talk. >> Going to put it on. >> You're fine. >> Okay. So, you're in the store. Who picked up these from the shelves? Who when they were boxed? Who? >> I did. >> You did? >> Yeah. Okay. And then you said you unpackaged both of them. >> Yeah. And I thought I throw a box in the truck in the cart. >> Okay. And you put the other box on the shelf somewhere. >> But I thought I threw one in the cart. >> And then these ended up inside your sweatshirt. >> Yeah. >> Correct. Okay. And you're claiming you thought she was going to pay for them. >> Yeah. Cuz like I said, I don't want to do I come in here shop a lot, too. And I know I don't steal. >> Okay. >> Okay. And this is all the stuff that is not not paid [clears throat] for. Okay. Who submitted payment into these into the uh selfch checkout? >> She did. I just gave her I gave her 80 bucks for what was mine. >> Okay. >> You know, you were doing a quick math thing. I gave her $88. >> You gave her $88 in cash? >> Yeah, cuz it was 80 and then she put her cash in and there was still like 7 something [snorts] or $863 left. >> You guys both came into the store together. You're telling me you concealed these in your I know you're saying you just did you wanted to pay, but you concealed these in your jacket. >> Walmart has video footage and they're showing us that $9186 worth of stuff was not paid for. Okay. So, at this time, you both are going to be placed under arrest for retail theft. We're going to go back to the police department, do some processing, and we'll figure it out from there. Okay. >> So, I need you to turn around, put your hand hands behind your back. >> After inventorying all unpaid merchandise, the total value was determined to be $91.86 86. With clear surveillance footage and stolen items recovered from the suspects, the shopping trip officially came to an end. Both individuals were placed in handcuffs and transported to the police station on retail theft charges. A case closed along with a set of excuses that could not stand against the facts. Clearly, one wrong decision made in just a few minutes of shopping didn't only lead to handcuffs, but also resulted in a criminal record, legal trouble, and long-term consequences for the family left behind. What do you think of a carefully planned getaway using a ride share only to have it shut down by coordinated Flaggler County deputies? The real peak of this story isn't the fake name, but the backseat talk show inside a patrol car where the suspects casually confess, believing no one is listening. Let's break down the contradiction-filled script of Paul and Maggie. On February 9th in Palm Coast, Florida, Flaggler County deputies conducted a felony stop on a black Uber that had just left Walmart. Store security reported a couple had committed theft and quickly called an Uber to flee. The vehicle was stopped at a red light. >> Robert, show me your hands. >> All right. I don't want to draw down on them. >> No, I'm not going to Hey, y'all put your hands out the window. Put your hands out the window. Hands out the window. Thank you. >> Back passenger window down. This a back passenger. Just keep your hands up. Back passenger. >> Thank you guys. Nice to see you. >> How's everybody doing? >> All right. >> What's your name, brother? >> My name Paul Watson the third. >> Paul, step out of the car real quick. >> What's going on? >> We'll explain everything to you in a second. >> As soon as he stepped out, Paul repeatedly denied stealing anything. He claimed he only went into Walmart to return a six-pack of T-shirts. When questioned further, Paul admitted he left the shirts and a fully loaded cart inside the store after getting nervous when approached by a woman. >> I go have your phone for you. I got you. Wait, just slow down a second. >> Yeah, just make sure what you're saying. >> No, I'm smart. We're good, man. >> All right. You going to round? >> No. Any kind of ID or anything? >> Let me see some ID. You got a wallet or something in your pocket? Let me see some ID. >> This is my cousin wallet. >> Is it? >> Yeah. No, then let me see it. >> Oh, all right. My whole key ID. What happened, sir? >> Where are you coming from today, buddy? Who >> me? >> Yes. >> Oh, I I'm just riding with my with my lip. I'm just coming back out of town. >> Where was your last stop at? >> My last stop? >> Yeah. >> Uh >> I just saw you holding your ID, man. Get your ID. >> Yeah. >> I'm playing this game. >> You know what? You know what? There you go. You go. Have a seat right back. Sit down. All the way on the ground, man. You got warrants or something? >> Uh, I just got a whatchamacaller for being in child support. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Man, I live my return. If I ain't getting I ain't even >> So, what what were you returning? >> No, I had a card, right? I was going to return. >> The way it goes, I didn't I didn't take nothing. >> Man, I'm not asking. You already told us like nine times you didn't take nothing. What were you returning? We're just trying We're just trying to get everything straight and we need to store them. >> So, I just had a uh a like a six-ack of shirts I was going to try to uh return. >> And you just left them there? >> No, I had I left everything in there. Everything I was going to get, I left cuz >> Well, where's the shirts you were returning? >> They still in the store? >> You just left your property there for It's a return. >> So, you walked in on the shirts in? >> No. No, I'm saying I didn't I didn't leave out the store with nothing. No, I'm saying like you brought the shirt specifically to the store to exchange. >> Well, I was one exchange, >> brother. Man, >> no. Okay. All right. Cuz I'm mad, upset. I ain't doing nothing. You know what I'm saying? I didn't take the stuff. In other words, I just didn't take I didn't >> I'm not worried about you taking the stuff. I'm worried about what you were returning. And what can we make some sense of that? >> Okay. >> Okay. >> That's what I'm >> That's what I'm getting. That's what I'm getting at. For real, dude. I did not take it. I didn't get I didn't go past. We figured out what stopped them. I called Walmart and they said they still saw the car. >> So they hopped in Uber before we realized what was happening. Crash >> and as we started looking, we're looking for a person. So I call Walmart, get some details like he's in a black piece of light right now. >> We were pulling out by Texas Roadhouse. We just watched them turn on the Bob Coast Parkway. >> So tell me about this lady. This >> I don't know who that lady was. >> What did she say to you? >> Oh, she was like, "Hey, how you doing?" >> Hey, how you doing? She was like, "You okay? Yeah, he was fiddling forever. I'm like, just give us my >> His story quickly unraveled. Paul said he was pushing the cart toward customer service to pay. An officer asked a simple question. Why walk past every checkout to do that? Paul had no clear answer and kept insisting he never left the store with any merchandise. >> Good idea, sir. >> I got it detained for that warrant for uh for pollution. Oh man. >> So, we're just going to we're just going to go with that right now. >> Yeah. >> Just trying to move your watch a little bit so I'm not trying to get your watch, bud. But we're going to do that real quick. >> That's it. >> Yeah, cuz I have to detain you for that. >> You guys together, >> I understand. I still got to get her name. >> Why? For what? >> Because right now I still got to figure out a ton of information from Walmart. >> Yeah, but that's about legal. like because I don't want to be >> Yeah. >> Yeah, man. I don't want nothing to happen to somebody anyway. >> All right. Lead up right here. I'm I want to finish searching. >> All right. >> Lift your foot up for me. >> I got you. >> Thank you, buddy. >> I ain't going nowhere, man. >> No, he's saying so you don't fall. >> Yeah. No, man. I don't know if you got poor balance or nothing. Just don't want your >> So, I got to do >> No, we're we're going to see about that. I still haven't got it back yet, but >> coming back with a warrant. >> I want >> Yeah, but I was honest with you, sir. >> Hop in here real quick. >> I know >> it's not necessary that they're going to take >> No, not yet. Just >> my wallet back there, sir. >> Yeah, I know it is. >> I can't get in. >> They confirmed your warrant, man. And they're doing an extradition. So, they're the warrant's going to be part of today. >> Part of today? Yeah. Yeah. You're like, you're also getting arrested for that, too. >> I'm getting arrested for that, too. What's two? >> Well, the shoplifting is one problem. >> I didn't shoplift, though. >> I didn't come out of that store with nothing, bro. >> But trying to return something you don't own. Is that >> No, I didn't try to return. I didn't I didn't make I didn't go to no return, bro. >> Okay. >> So, >> I didn't shop, bro. I didn't shop. >> Listen, what were you trying to return, >> bro? I came in there. I was I was shopping. The lady stopped me and and was asking me questions and I going to the um to the service customer service and the lady stopped me with my stuff and I left out the store. Bro, I >> What were you trying to return? >> I wasn't I didn't never return I didn't say I was returning nothing. I mean I said I was returning nothing something but I wasn't. >> What were you trying to >> I was going in there I was shopping sir. >> Okay. I was customer service desk for >> I was going to the customer service desk. The civilian lady, whoever that lady was that didn't work there, went to with me. So I never came out the store. >> The customer service desk for >> what? I'm going to to buy my stuff to pay for my stuff. >> You passed the registers to pay at the customer service, >> huh? >> You passed the registers. >> I was turning, sir. You can look at the cameras. I I went in there and I >> Why wouldn't you just check out the registers? >> Sorry. >> Come on, man. I did not shoplift, bro. The woman with him, Maggie Bennett, tried to mislead police by giving a fake name. A system check revealed the mismatch. Her real identity was exposed along with an active warrant for probation violation. Maggie then admitted she knew Paul was stealing and that she was the one who called the Uber to escape. >> Step out of the car. Let's talk. >> Well, she's I'm about to confirm unless Did they give any other description? >> I need to talk to her. >> Okay. >> I'm going to verify her name real quick. got a lot more >> nothing at all. >> You guys didn't come up here together? >> No, we did not. >> I need you to tell me what's going on because you know that doesn't make it. Listen, >> you need to worry about me right now cuz I'm the one that's got to make sense of the >> How am I supposed to believe you for something? >> I don't know, sir. >> Just tell me what happened. I know. I wasn't with him. I >> said he called you for a ride. Just say he called you for a ride. >> Yeah, he said come pick me up >> there. Come on now. >> I got to be able to make sense of that. >> And I'm turning around. I said I got to come back to >> you say together or something. >> No. >> All right. >> Hey, did we get her back yet? Confirmed. >> Are you sure in that purse you don't have an ID? >> No, I don't. >> Tanya should clarify your name. No, you don't have to do that. Just like lean back on the car. You're good. >> I'm sure to clarify cuz the first time I rang your name, I didn't get anything. If there's anything that you missed, because I know you said 196. >> Okay, before I try this again, I'm giving you one chance. If there's anything you want to correct about this information right here, now's the time to tell me cuz if I find out it's not true later, >> so Oh, you spelled the name wrong. >> ET. >> I I put that in there. I understand. I didn't put the E on here. Other than that, there's nothing wrong. Oh, that's your >> Can I sit down? >> What is it? >> So, we've got a very different name here. Let me see this. >> I got a warrant. VP. >> Oh, really? >> Yes. >> Maggie Bennett. >> But h >> you the sergeant? >> No. >> This the sergeant? >> No. No. >> How do you spell your last name? >> B E N E T. >> B E N E D. >> Can I sit down >> in the car? >> Yeah. I'm not going to do it. >> You sit down here, but I can't have you back in the car. >> Look at my leg. >> I'm fine with you sitting down out here, but I cannot have you back in the car. >> You all right? You almost fell over. >> Now you stepped me like somebody earlier. Now I'm going to step back. >> I know. >> I know. I should have told you the suicide first. Um they got me on a very important thing like we getting up big time drug deal. I work with drugs. I'm on the phone. Okay. And um >> and she needs to be real. >> Yes, sir. >> Cuz you know I got to make sense of the situation and you know that I have >> Yes. Right. Yes sir. >> He was trying to shop. >> Yes. You were with him? >> Yes. And you called for him? >> Yes. >> No, I didn't call for I called for myself, but he called me and saying, >> "What do you all have?" Okay. >> Okay. Can I make a couple of calls? >> Excuse me, sir. >> Please let me talk to the detective later. >> Where's your ID at? >> Sir, what about the other one? >> There's something else in there. See? >> Oh, no. This >> Let me see that. What's your brother's name? What's your brother's name? Come on now. >> Sam Cooper. >> Who's your lead? >> I don't know who that is. >> Okay, here we go. >> I don't, sir. >> No, don't. No. Listen to me. Listen to me. Come on, man. >> I don't know who that is, sir. It just was in my pocketbook. It's not a big deal. >> Who was it? >> You got mine. >> Can we come on out? >> Come on. >> Can I smoke? Actually, >> yeah. Sit it right here. >> Let's uh put your hands behind your back. You >> be in the thing. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Let you get two, three puffs of that before we put it out. Okay. In my back seat with it. >> I'm not lying to you. >> Is he lying to me? >> I don't. >> You got all kinds of stuff going on. We're going to have to have a conversation. Okay. >> And I want to have a real conversation with you. You know what I'm saying? >> Get the lighter for me. Please. >> Oh, you need a light. >> I'll let you get a puffer into, but you're going to have to go. I'm going try to get you some AC real quick. I need to figure out some stuff. >> Okay. Can you place her? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Get two, three puffs out of it. >> The climax unfolded in the back of the patrol car. Believing no one was listening, Paul panicked after realizing he could face a felony theft charge due to the merchandise exceeding $500. Maggie bitterly complained about the failed plan. Every honest thought was captured on camera. >> They didn't bother. You found any receipts or any of this? >> Those was I mean they didn't. >> So you pass. >> It's got to be right now. >> Oh, tell the rest of this. >> I can I can get hurt. Uh, >> I know it, but I would. >> Just saying you didn't have the intent. I'm saying you can articulate that you did. >> That's what court's for. I'm not going to sit here and you're right. You're right, sir. >> I'm not saying you're officially guilty. That's for a judge. >> That's what I'm saying. I'm not guilty, but I shouldn't be charged if I didn't leave out the store with nothing. And I didn't I didn't pass all points of sale. Damn. >> I'm going buckle you in. I'm going come around and buckle you in. >> I'm good, sir. I ain't going to go no more. No, I know. I want you to go into the back of the cage. Oh, >> what they charge you with? >> That's okay. >> I'm sorry. Told you that don't do that today. Now I got to do about 2, three years without no money to burn out. >> Now they going to charge me what? Grand theft. >> Why? >> Cuz I chucked over $500 worth of stuff just for >> that was over $500. >> They said it had to be over 700. >> Five. They just talking like >> you got I got told you I think about it. I decided to just go to the all our stuff at the motel. >> Oh, I'mma send to go get it. Papa said, "Oh, we step off. Go get all our stuff." Knowing damn well I couldn't have left. I I couldn't have leave. I couldn't leave. I I couldn't leave. I had to have that man make that U-turn and go see if I can cry. I ain't know was still standing out. >> She was still standing there the whole entire time on the phone. >> You didn't hear me whistling. >> I heard all of that. That's why I know what direction to go at. That's why I had the man to break do the U-turn to pick you up. Oh, that bush. >> But if that man would have kept straight, we would have got away. >> I knew it. >> I got a feeling Walmart's not going to want you guys back there. >> Good. Telling them to get their stuff and I'm sorry and and they don't have to worry about me no more. >> All right. They might do a trespass for you. >> Thank you. That's all I need. they can get their stuff back. And I'm sorry cuz they didn't catch me and I don't need another charge. I already got to deal with this one. >> All right. In the end, Paul Watson III was arrested for theft along with an outstanding warrant related to pollution offenses. Maggie Bennett faced multiple charges, including theft, providing false identification, and violation of probation. What appeared to be a minor theft quickly ended both of their attempts to evade the law. The yelling and resistance didn't improve the situation. Instead, they pushed everything far beyond what was necessary. What could have ended quickly escalated into handcuffs, criminal charges, and a record that will follow them for years to come. Brace yourself for a masterclass in excuses, where promises of I'll pay for it collide headon with the harsh reality of a trespass ban. What started with a tube of superglue is about to end with a pair of handcuffs and a 24-hour stay in jail. On May 17th, 2025, police responded to Walmart after loss prevention reported a customer loading merchandise into a cart and roaming the store for hours with suspicious behavior. Here's what happened next. >> Hello. How are you? >> Hey, man. So, right now you're just getting detained for shoplifting. Okay. >> Oh, no. I'm buying stuff. >> Okay. So, right now you're just being detained. You're not arrested or anything. So, as of now, you are >> But I'm trying to buy >> do what? >> I'm buying some stuff. >> Are you buying super glue? >> Yeah, I'm buying some stuff >> in your purse. >> Yeah. Super glue. >> At first, she denied stealing and claimed she was just shopping. Moments later, she casually admitted the items were already inside her purse. an unusually honest slip. >> I was going to buy it. >> Okay. And when you're going to buy it, do you normally put items in your purse? >> Well, sometime um like at clubs, they let you buy. >> We're 10:26 right now. >> Okay. >> So, >> but I haven't walked out the store yet. I'm feeling vi. >> So, what I'm going to tell you right now is as against the law, you can't conceal items within your purse because that is part of statute. So, as I as I said, right now you right now you're detained. Yeah, with like a purse, like a like a a shopping bag that you buy from them. That's your purse. So, right now, you're just attained. Okay. Until we can see video footage and from there they want to press charges, they can figure that out and you can talk with them about that. Okay. >> Can I talk? Can I talk to them? Because I I you know what I'm saying? Like >> we we'll review the video. >> Okay. >> But I want to buy the stuff. >> Okay. As of now, you're just a tame. So, as long as you're cool with me, I don't plan on putting you in cuffs while you're detained. Just don't do anything crazy with me. Sounds good. >> Yeah. >> All right. >> So, put all that in this basket right here. >> Is there any other items? >> Yeah, I'll put it. >> You happen to have an ID on you at all? >> No. >> Not in your purse or anything? >> I'm saying you have a driver's license on you? >> No. [music] >> Okay. >> What a >> Did you drive here? I had caught a ride, but I'm saying like when you go to Kroger's and Publix, you can put stuff in a bag >> in in a in a dedicated shopping bag that has been bought by them. It's a recyclable bag. That's your purse that has all your other personal items in it. >> It ain't nothing ain't nothing. It's empty. Ain't nothing in there but my phone and my money >> with your personal items, right? So, your purse, your little phone, and then everything else in there. So, with the statute, it is concealing items >> in a bag. I went >> Jody, what's your last name? >> All right, we're going to go ahead and head over there so you can talk to him and everything. Okay, walk away. >> Despite her repeated excuses, officers had to clarify a simple rule. Unpaid store merchandise does not belong in a personal bag. It's a basic standard everyone is expected to follow. >> Gentlemen, this video real quick. Um, so M is stating that, you know, obviously, hey, I'm going to buy these. Um, I was just putting them in my purse, uh, till I go to check out. Um, so it's probably here to dispel any kind of confusion as to why this is shoplifting. And, um, if you'd like to press charges, ma'am. >> Yeah. So, um, did y'all get everything out of the >> Yeah, there's like a dozen items that were in the purse. >> So, I mean, you have a cart. So the cart is what the what's you know, let's be real. I mean, honestly, you have a cart. That's what the cart is for, not your purse. You don't put the items in your purse. And if you were just doing that, why you you do it so secretly like that? That's not how people shop and get their That's not secretly right there on the island. >> Okay. Um Well, yeah, I want to prosecute. So, we'll let the um the judge decide. That's fine. And so the judge may agree with you and the judge may say, "Hey, she was just putting it in her purse." >> Okay. But I'm saying I got I can pay for I was going to pay for the stuff. Like I wasn't going to walk out the store with the stuff. >> Okay. And you can tell the judge that. That's fine. >> But I'm telling you like I really don't I got my child outside. >> Is your child in the car, Jody? >> Yeah. Like I want to pay for the car. Can I just pay for it? Jody, which car is he in here? Is she in? Cuz we got a bigger issue now. Where's your What car? You said you were dropped off here. >> No, I had caught a ride. >> Is Do you have a child outside, ma'am? >> Yeah. Yeah. With my ride. I don't know if they >> Your child's with your ride. >> Yeah, I I leave my child in a car by their cell. >> The turning point wasn't the items in her purse, but what Walmart confirmed next. Jod had already been barred from the store. That meant the moment she walked inside, she was committing criminal trespass, regardless of whether she stole anything. Jod appeared stunned to learn her name was already in the system. >> All right. >> But I'm saying, >> but what's your name? Have you been hot before? >> I mean, yeah, but from here >> you said that she was bored from here. >> I'm saying. >> Yes. >> Jody, give me your stuff. >> What? Give me stuff. >> Come on. >> I'm saying >> Jody. Come on. >> Wait. Can I Can I talk? >> You know you're actually bar. You're not supposed to be here. Come on. >> Okay. The next thing. >> Jody. >> Ma'am. Okay. But I'm trying to talk. Can I >> You don't need to talk to her. This is our business. >> Okay. Okay. >> You're bar for this location. Come on. >> Okay. But ma'am, >> Jody, come on. >> Stand up. Stand up, please. >> Just bring those up and get a receipt. >> I won't. >> This is that you you violated the the trespass. So that's on them. They they they take you for that. That's what I mean. >> I'm saying I need to [snorts] I know. You know what I'm saying? Like what it looked like, but I have the money to pay. >> Right. But you weren't supposed to be on the property to begin with. >> I thought they said um I was barred from old time. >> Well, you stole from them, too. So, you're barred from them, too, I would assume. >> Got caught in both places. So, how >> come on? >> There's nothing else to talk about. >> I'm just trying to see how long. >> Come on, sweetheart. >> We'll tell you. >> We'll tell you how long it is. >> We have in the system. >> We have it on the system. How long your body? >> We'll just do this out here. That way, ain't nobody else around. Okay. >> So, will I get out tonight? >> Probably. We'll go take a look at you from my husband and everything and if you you know if they give you a bond within their right to >> is her >> I will have a bond >> to I I'm not sure once you get to the jail ask them we'll let you know as long as you cooperate we'll get you on the phone you okay got borrowed from Walmart or >> actually >> oh tonight >> yeah huh >> okay We'll do the >> We'll go this way. >> I'm riding with him and these two guys are riding in that car and we're going to transport you and go on this this side over here. >> Do you get a ride for criminal? >> Yeah. For criminal trespass. Yeah. >> Do you know how long it's going to take? >> I mean, here in Athens, it's usually pretty quick. Like 24 hours or less. >> 24 hours. >> I mean, that's a day. I don't want to do a day. >> I don't want you to do a day either. >> I ain't going to get no blame when I get there. >> You should. You don't have any pockets, do you? >> Okay. >> You don't have anything on you that you don't want to take to the jail. >> Huh? >> So, what they charging you with? >> Um, criminal trespass due to the barring, uh, shoplift. >> What began with small items like superglue ended with Jod facing two charges: retail theft and criminal trespass. The case shows how minor actions combined with a lack of cooperation and disregard for store rules can quickly lead to serious legal consequences. This