Walmart’s ‘shop with a cop’ night is a bad time to steal. She still tried, PA cops say
A Walmart was teeming with cops, but it didn’t stop a Pennsylvania woman from trying to shoplift, officials say.
She tried taking a cart packed with stolen merchandise while the store was hosting “shop with a cop” night, Pennsylvania State Police Troop B wrote Wednesday on Twitter.
As the woman approached the door with clothes worth about $100, several cops were there, according to WTAE.
“You’ve got police officers from several agencies in a Walmart at an event to help kids,” Trooper Robert Broadwater told the station. “Somebody has the gall to do that in front of us?”
It happened in Uniontown, a city in Fayette County and roughly 45 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
Sunny Ray Firestone, 32, was arrested Tuesday and charged with retail theft, state records show. Her next court date is Wednesday.
Firestone “told police her sick mother needed new clothes,” according to a document obtained by KDKA.
Another woman caught at the Walmart received a citation, WTAE reports.
After the ordeal, state police shared a friendly tip.
“When your local WalMart is hosting a shop with a cop event and the store is filled with police officers, that might not be the time to try and walk out of the store with a shopping cart full of merchandise that you did not pay for,” officials said in their tweet.
This story was originally published December 12, 2019 at 1:15 PM with the headline "Walmart’s ‘shop with a cop’ night is a bad time to steal. She still tried, PA cops say."
