A WOMAN has been arrested for stealing $355 in merchandise from a Walmart self-checkout.
Bevals Aleen Hinton, 45, was at Walmart on Black Friday when she reportedly filled her shopping cart with $424 worth of the store’s products – but she only paid for $74 worth of merchandise.
Hinton took her cart full of items to the self-checkout area of a Walmart store in Florida and only scanned $74 worth of the products she had, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.
The woman paid for $74 of the more than $400 merchandise she had and proceeded to roll the cart to the exit without paying for the other $355 worth of items.
When thieves do this type of stealing technique in the self-checkout lane of stores, it’s known as the ‘pass around’ method because the person places items in their bag without scanning them.
The things Hinton didn’t pay for were mostly food and household products, according to The Villages News.
After Hinton was caught by a store employee, a deputy took her into custody and she told the law enforcement officer that she had recently been evicted from her home.
She gave the deputy the excuse that she had just moved in with a roommate and didn’t have any money.
Hinton was arrested on a charge of theft and booked at the Marion County Jail.
She was released on bond and her next court date is set for December 7.
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