Articles Tagged with Walmart

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A North Carolina man was arrested after he was allegedly involved in the shooting of a store employee who allegedly caught him trying to steal chicken.

On the evening of January 28, a man went to the Walmart Neighborhood Market in the Charlotte area to pick up dog food and chicken. When he was using the self-checkout, he allegedly did not scan the items. An employee believed he was trying to steal the food, and they approached the shopper to address the situation.

According to reports, when the worker talked to the man, he rang up the dog food. As he was walking out, the employee asserted that the customer was still trying to take the chicken without paying for it and he attempted to snatch the package from the alleged fowl thief.

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A father in Pennsylvania is facing several charges after allegedly running away and abandoning his 3-month-old daughter in a store when he was accused of shoplifting.

According to reports, late in the evening on January 18, a man with an infant and two other adults went to a Walmart store in Philadelphia. While they were there, the group allegedly picked up items and tried to leave the store without paying for them.

Store security noticed the three suspected thieves, and when they tried to confront them about the allegedly stolen goods, they fled from the premises. The 2-month-old’s father reportedly left her behind at the store.

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A mom is facing charges after she allegedly brought her toddler to a Walmart store wearing nothing but a diaper on a freezing cold day.

On January 17, in Byram, Mississippi, the weather was recorded as being between 10 and 38 degrees. According to reports, a local woman who has a toddler son decided to visit the Walmart Supercenter with the child. She allegedly left the child unclothed and wearing only a diaper despite the frigid temperature outside.

It was reported that while she was in the store with the child in the grocery cart, a shopper walked up to her to admonish her for not putting clothes on the youngster. She allegedly acted unfazed and responded by twerking in his direction.

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A man who went into the bathroom at a Florida Walmart store reportedly found someone’s cell phone and allegedly used it to make a false report to the authorities, saying there was a bomb at the location.

On the afternoon of January 12, a man in a Port Charlotte Walmart entered the bathroom. While there, he reportedly discovered a cell phone sitting out, but no one else was in the restroom. The man had allegedly seen several videos on TikTok showing people going into stores and calling in fake bomb threats. He reportedly dialed 911, and after a dispatcher answered he said there was a bomb in the store. It was noted in the police report that he ended the call by saying “tic toc tic toc.”

Law enforcement from the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office went to the location to investigate. When they arrived, they saw the rightful owner of the phone, and he told them he was able to digitally track the device’s location to the Walmart bathroom where he had been shortly before the call was placed.

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A Florida police officer and his girlfriend were arrested after allegations that they stole items at Walmart on four separate occasions by using self-checkout and failing to scan several pieces of merchandise.

Last weekend, a man who worked as an officer for the Haines City Police Department for approximately four years went to a Walmart store in Mulberry. He was accompanied by a woman later identified as his girlfriend. When they finished their shopping, they headed to the self-checkout to ring up the items.

According to reports, an employee noticed that some of the items were bagged without first being scanned. They approached the couple and told them they could ring up the skipped merchandise, but they allegedly continued skipping some of the items they reportedly took.

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A married high school teacher in Mississippi was arrested after allegedly having an affair with a student that he reportedly planned to take out of state so they could be wed.

According to reports, last Spring, a 38-year-old physics teacher at Ocean Springs High School and a 17-year-old female student allegedly engaged in a relationship involving sex. Occasionally, the man allegedly took the teen to his Fort Bayou Estates home, and at other times they reportedly parked in a Walmart parking lot to engage in sexual relations.

The pair reportedly decided to leave the state and go to Louisiana so they could get married, even though the man has a wife and a young child.

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A registered sex offender from Decatur reportedly engaged police in a foot chase around a Walmart Garden center after allegedly inappropriately touching two customers and secretly taking upskirt pictures of others.

On June 8, a man visited a Walmart in Gwinnett and was allegedly seen touching a young girl’s buttocks. Employees tried to find him, but the man left the premises before he was located.

The following day, a man believed to be the one who touched the girl came back into the store. As soon as they saw him, employees called the authorities to report the situation.

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Two women have been accused of ripping off Walmart for hundreds of dollars of merchandise by allegedly switching price tags and failing to scan many items at the self-checkout station.

On May 27, two women were shopping together at a Walmart in Ocala, Florida, and they used the self-checkout lanes when they were ready to leave. They concluded the transaction and headed towards the door with their cart full of merchandise.

A store employee noticed what they believed was suspicious activity taking place when the women were scanning the items they planned to purchase. They thought the women did not scan several of the items in their cart.

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A man in Georgia who was allegedly savagely assaulting a youngster was held at gunpoint by a bystander until the authorities arrived. 

According to reports, a 67-year-old man and a young child were in a car in the parking lot at Walmart in Warner Robins, which is about 90 miles from Atlanta.  The man allegedly forcefully yanked the youngster from the vehicle, and the child began to yell. 

A Walmart Auto patron was having his car serviced with an oil change when he reportedly heard the screaming and spotted the man and child. He said he witnessed the man forcefully taking the youngster into the wooded area surrounding the lot. He also reported that he heard the child begging the man not to hit him. 

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A 17-year-old girl in Texas reportedly used a BB gun to threaten her male friend while three children were in the vehicle with them because she vehemently objected to going to Walmart. 

On October 25, a 17-year-old girl and her 20-year-old male friend drove to Walmart in Brownsville in a van with three children and a male passenger. 

It was reported that the woman’s 20-year-old companion wanted to go into the store, but she was completely against the idea. The pair allegedly began to fight over the shopping trip. 

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