Dollar Tree

Published on: December 9, 2022

Store Clerk Slapped over “Karen” Comment

A man shopping at a Pinellas County Dollar Tree store with his wife allegedly slapped a store employee working at the checkout across the face after the woman called his spouse a “Karen.”

On the evening of November 30, a Florida man and his wife went shopping at a Dollar Tree store in Clearwater.

When they finished collecting their items and went to the checkout counter, the woman and the cashier began to engage in a verbal disagreement. It was reported that plastic grocery bags were the cause of the spat.

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Published on: September 5, 2022

Store Manager used Teenage Son to Steal $5k in Staged Robbery

by Staycie R. Sena

An assistant manager at a Florida Dollar Tree store allegedly took her 15-year-old son to the store to assist her in stealing over $5,000 during a staged robbery.

According to reports, one of the duties of the assistant manager at Dollar Tree is to handle the after-hours cash bank deposits when the store closes.

In the middle of August, some of the deposits were reportedly never received by the bank.

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Published on: April 9, 2020

Dollar Tree Cashier Assaulted When Trying to Enforce Social Distancing

by Staycie R. Sena

A cashier at a Florida Dollar Tree accused a man of physically attacking her after she reportedly tried to ask him to practice social distancing as he crowded others when he allegedly tried to cut in line at the checkout.

Last Friday afternoon, patrons and employees at the Dollar Tree in Madeira Beach were conducting business as usual, but with the implementation of new social distancing procedures put in place in the store to help stop the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Just before 1:30 pm, Stephan Fanelli, a 55-year-old man who was listed as “transient” in the police report, was reportedly standing in one of the lines with his items for purchase and waiting to be checked out.

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Published on: July 8, 2018

Two Homeless Men Killed in Parking Lot During Teen Driving Lesson

by Staycie R. Sena

A Philadelphia mother and her daughter to whom she was giving driving lessons in a public parking lot are each facing many charges after the teenager is suspected of causing the death of two homeless men who were sitting in the area.

32-year-old Stephanie Hernandez and her 15-year-old daughter went out together in the evening on June 4 in a Ford Explorer that Hernandez was purportedly using to give the teen a chance to practice driving.

The mother and daughter chose a Dollar Tree parking lot in the northeast part of town in which to work on preparing the girl for driving on the road when she received her driver’s license.

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