This is the 70th time a man has been arrested for stealing a large quantity of meat, according to Ohio police.
The South Euclid Police Department (SEPD) called Walmart on Thursday, January 5, following reports that a shoplifter was seen carrying a shopping cart filled with various unpaid cuts of meat. it was done.
A police spokesperson said in a Facebook post on Monday, Jan. 9, “A man was then spotted stuffing a stolen suitcase with meat in a parking lot near the Pennsylvania Station garbage cans.
“Anything that didn’t fit in the stolen suitcase was thrown in the trash. The suspect left the shopping cart in the parking lot after the security feature locked the front wheels. I can no longer hold down .”
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Police said the suspect was stopped by officers at a bus stop across from a Walmart.
He later turns out to be a 62-year-old man from Garfield Heights, with several unpaid warrants.
“The suspect usually said he would sell the meat he stole to the restaurant and pay half the face value on the price tag,” SEPD said. “The suspect did not identify the restaurant.”
A SEPD spokesperson said the suspect was charged with theft, making it his 70th arrest.
There will be 186 thefts in the city in 2021, down one from 187 in 2020, according to SEPD.
Statistics collected by the department show 49 reported thefts from buildings in 2021, compared to 33 in 2020.
Newsweek We have reached out to SEPD for comment.
In January 2022, an elderly woman ripped off her balaclava to stop a suspected Walmart shoplifter.
A man was seen pushing a shopping cart full of merchandise toward the exit of a Canadian Walmart.
When a man filming inside a Campbell River store asked the balaclava-wearing man if he was going to pay for the product, he said “yes.”
But an elderly woman, apparently suspicious of his motives, blocks his way and rips off his black ski mask.
The man bared his face and rode off without a shopping cart.
Cst. Maury Tyre of the Campbell River Royal Canadian Mounted Police said people might get frustrated seeing shoplifters, but they shouldn’t intervene.
He told CHEK: Liability in such cases. ”
