A WALMART thief has been caught red-handed after trying to hide expensive MLB cards in a suitcase, police said.
The shopper was allegedly caught on camera taking the luggage off the shelf and filling it with merchandise before they were confronted by an employee at self-checkout.
An officer working a scene near a Walmart in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was approached by an employee who informed them of the incident on Monday.
The employee said that video footage caught the shopper zipping up the suitcase filled with cards and scanning only the luggage, The Chattanoogan reports.
When he was trying to pay, an employee asked to look inside and discovered the stolen merchandise.
The shopper left the store, allowing the worker to recover all of the cards.
The sneaky trick comes as another Walmart shopper has allegedly attempted to steal around $800 worth of items using a hack that involves soda.
In Cortlandville, New York, about 40 miles south of Syracuse, state police arrested Adrian Endsley, 46, after employees at a local Walmart supposedly witnessed the Lacona resident shoplifting.
State police received a call reporting larceny from Walmart staff on June 7.
After arriving, employees said they witnessed Endsley fill a shopping cart with about $836 worth of product before scanning just a soda at the self-checkout, per The Central New York Business Journal.
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Law enforcement told the publication that Endsley was charged with third-degree burglary.
Endsley was also previously banned from entering any Walmart store before the situation on June 7, as there had reportedly been similar incidents.
That’s why the charge was burglary instead of shoplifting, officers noted.
Because of the ban, Endsley unlawfully entered Walmart and committed larceny, which led to the burglary determination.
Police took the alleged thief to the Homer Police Department for processing.
He was later taken to Cortland County Jail for further processing and arraignment.
The self-checkout “soda trick” comes as several shoppers have been caught recently for alleged thefts and using sneaky methods to get past security without paying for everything.
As The U.S. Sun previously reported, a shopper in Tennessee allegedly stole three televisions after only scanning a can of Pepsi at a self-checkout kiosk.
On June 5, the unnamed suspect was seen entering the store on Memorial Boulevard.
She then allegedly went to the self-checkout area, where she scanned and paid for a can of Pepsi but did not scan anything else.
The suspect was then seen leaving the Walmart store with the three televisions and her can of soda, which security footage captured.
The Murfreesboro Police Department is still looking to identify the Walmart shopper.
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