Police search for Florida woman who had tantrum in shoplifting attempt
A woman suspected of shoplifting at a Walmart store in Winter Haven had a temper tantrum and threw a doll box at a store worker on February 2, 2022. (Winter Haven Police)
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WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (CBS12) — Police are looking for the woman who threw a temper tantrum at a cash register during an attempted shoplifting run.
The woman became so angry after Walmart store workers stopped her at the register, with a cart full of items, that she even hurled a Barbie Doll at a store worker.
The incident from earlier this month in Winter Haven is caught on camera.
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Police said the woman rolled up to the self-checkout lanes with a cart full of groceries, silk flowers and toys. The woman wanders the nearby aisles, interrupting scanning some of her items in the cart, a process that took about 15 minutes. She pushes her shopping cart toward the doors when workers pull her aside.0.25×0.5xnormal1.5x2x
A woman suspected of shoplifting at a Walmart store in Winter Haven had a temper tantrum and threw a doll box at a store worker on February 2, 2022. (Winter Haven Police)
Police said the woman shouted, “Get the manager, Kim. I have an employee discount and I get my groceries for free.”
In the video, the woman walks away from the cart and plucks a doll from a nearby store shelf and throws it at one of the workers. The doll hit the worker in the face and caused a small cut on her lip.
The woman eventually left the store empty-handed. She had green hands and hair, likely from a recent hair dye treatment.
Police hope someone recognizes her from the video and calls 863-662-0392.
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NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A Florida woman has found herself behind bars after allegedly using counterfeit bills at Walmart and then trying to eat the fake money when being detained by police, according to the Miami-Dade Police Department.
Zipporah Abraham, 38, was arrested and charged with third-degree grand theft and uttering forged bills after the incident that unfolded at a Walmart in North Miami Beach on Sunday, according to an arrest affidavit.
A Walmart loss prevention officer was notified that a customer, later identified as Abraham, was trying to use fake money to pay for items, the affidavit said. When Walmart employees looked at the store’s surveillance footage, they realized this wasn’t the first time Abraham was involved in an incident at the store on NE 163 St. The affidavit did not go into further detail about Abraham’s history with the store, but did say she was an “offender in the past.”
Abraham was seen hiding several products in a storage bin and pacing back and forth until she found a window of opportunity to leave the store with the items, the affidavit continued. She allegedly walked past all points of sale with the storage bin, but was stopped by the loss prevention officer. Abraham was then taken to the loss prevention office for an investigation.
There, it was discovered that the unpaid items in the storage bin totaled $864.77.
Photo: Photo: Miami-Dade Police Department
When the officer asked her to remove the jewelry from her wrist before being placed into custody, she put $200 worth of counterfeit bills in her mouth and tried to eat them, the affidavit said.
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She was taken into custody and transported to Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where she remains on $10,000 bond, according to arrest records.
FOX 35 is working to obtain the bodycam footage from this incident.
Woman arrested in wild Walmart shoplifting incident speaks out
By KSLA Staff
BOSSIER CITY, LA (KSLA) – One of the three women accused of shoplifting, is speaking out, after police say they injured two women while trying to flee the parking lot of a Bossier City business Monday evening.
Police say 20-year-old Tybrianne M. Davis, of Natchitoches, 19-year-old Alexis D. Neal of Shreveport and 21-year-old Denesha R. Bernstine of Natchitoches hit a mother and daughter as they tried to drive away from Walmart on Airline Drive.
Police say Davis jumped into a car and backed over a woman’s foot. Her adult daughter then confronted Davis who tried to drive off.
At that point, the daughter jumped onto the hood of the car Davis was driving and Davis then sped through the lot with the woman on the hood until police confronted her.
“To actually have a speeding chase in the parking lot, that was pretty scary,” said witness Shea Whisnant.
Davis slammed on the brakes, sending the daughter sailing through the air and crashing onto the ground. She was taken to University Health Shreveport with a possible broken leg.
In a statement to police, the victim claimed she doesn’t know how she got on the hood of the car.
The mother, who was checked out by Bossier City firefighters, did not appear to need further treatment.
“I’ve never experienced anything like this in my life,” said Neal, who claims she did not know anything about the shoplifting.
According to a police report, a stolen $100.00 cell phone and $25.00 Venus razors were recovered at the scene.
Neal claims she never ran away from employees, even though her friends told her too after being approached by employees, “I told her, ‘No, I just want to know what’s going on, I’m not going anywhere,'” she said.
According to Neal, she followed Davis and Bernstine to her car, but never ran from employees.
She claims her friend Davis snatched her keys out of her hand and got into Neal’s car, along with Bernstine.
She said she refused to get into her own car, “I’m not going to run away from something when I did no wrong,” she said.
That’s about the time Whisnant was leaving Walmart and saw several police cars rushing into the parking lot, with an ambulance and fire truck close behind.
“It’s not something you are expecting to see when you are leaving a store,” said Whisnant.
She crossed paths with Neal when she asked to use Whisnant’s phone, at the front of the store, nowhere near the action. “She didn’t have anything with her, she didn’t have a purse, she didn’t have a cell phone, she didn’t have nothing, she was just standing up there very distraught,” she said.
“I just had no control over the whole situation, I was stunned the whole time,” she said.
According to the police report, when police interviewed Davis at the Bossier City Jail, she admitted she and her two friends were shop lifting at Wal-Mart and all three women ran from security staff. She stated that it was her two friends, not her, who were the ones who got into a verbal altercation with the two females by the vehicle. Davis did mention that Bernstine was the only passenger at the time of the hit and run.
Neal’s vehicle was towed out of the middle of the parking lot.
“I understand that you need to pick and choose your friends and you have to pay attention to your surroundings, it was just a lesson learned,” said Neal.
The three shoplifting suspects were arrested and face multiple charges. Davis was charged with two counts of hit and run with injury, theft of goods, reckless operation and simple battery, stemming from pushing a Walmart employee as she ran out of the store. Neal and Bernstine were charged with theft of goods.
