UPDATE: Arrest Made in Commercial Armed Robbery Investigation at Family Dollar

A Bibb County Sheriff’s Office investigator arrested a female in connection to the reported commercial armed robbery at Family Dollar, located at 3656 Jeffersonville Road.

On June 28, 2023, at 12:43 p.m., a call was made to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office by a Family Dollar employee who reported the store had just been robbed by an armed suspect. Deputies arrived within minutes to secure the business. An investigator arrived on scene and met with the caller who was unharmed.

On July 5, 2023, before 5:00 p.m., contact was made with the caller once more at Family Dollar. She was transported to headquarters for questioning. After a thorough investigation of this incident, it was discovered that the report of an armed robbery at Family Dollar was a false report of a crime. The suspect was identified as 38-year-old Nicole Danielle Hall, the caller and employee of Family Dollar.

Nicole Danielle Hall was transported from headquarters to the Bibb County Law Enforcement Center where she was charged with False Report of a Crime, Felony Theft by Taking, and Making False Statements or Writings.

Media Release

June 28, 2023

Commercial Armed Robbery Investigation at Family Dollar

The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a commercial armed robbery that took place just before 01:00 p.m. at the Family Dollar, located at 3656 Jeffersonville Road.

At 12:50p.m. on June 28, 2023, deputies arrived at the Family Dollar in response to a distress call. It was reported that the store clerk entered the store. Immediately upon entry, the clerk felt a blunt object against her back. The suspect demanded money from the store clerk in what was described as a male’s voice. After receiving an undisclosed amount of cash, the suspect fled the store. The description of the suspect is unknown. No one was injured during this incident.

The incident is under investigation.

Family Dollar employee faces felony charges after shooting suspected shoplifter who allegedly attacked him

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Kevin Salas Madrid, 24, confronted a “serial shoplifter” he recognized who had hit his store on multiple occasions, leading to that shoplifter punching him, local news in Phoenix reports. (Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office) Background image: Family Dollar (WZTV)

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PHOENIX, Ariz. (TND) — A Family Dollar employee in Arizona is facing felony charges after reportedly admitting to shooting a suspected shoplifter who allegedly attacked him.

Kevin Salas Madrid, 24, confronted a “serial shoplifter” who had previously hit his store on multiple occasions, leading to that shoplifter punching him, local news in Phoenix reports.

After being punched, Madrid reportedly pulled out a gun and shot the shoplifter multiple times, with witnesses saying Madrid kept shooting the shoplifter even after the man fell to the ground.

According to one witness, the 24-year-old Family Dollar employee said he could not control his anger after the suspected serial shoplifter punched his glasses off.

Later, when talking with police, Madrid allegedly called his response to the alleged attack “egregious.”

Kevin stated he had made the worst decision of his life,” Madrid’s probable cause statement reads, according to Fox News. “Kevin explained he was struck and decided to shoot but looking back, he realized it was egregious.”

Kevin Salas Madrid, 24, confronted a “serial shoplifter” he recognized who had hit his store on multiple occasions, leading to that shoplifter punching him, local news in Phoenix reports. (Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office)

A Family Dollar employee who claims to have witnessed the shooting said that Madrid possibly fired up to 15 shots during the incident, according to the publication Arizona’s Family.

When police arrived at the store, Madrid reportedly identified himself as the gunman and his gun was reportedly empty of ammunition.

A media advisory from the Phoenix Police Department on March 22 says the shooting occurred that day around 7:50 p.m. at the Family Dollar location on Indian School Road in Phoenix.

The victim of the shooting was taken to the hospital in critical condition following the incident, according to the media advisory, which added that Madrid was arrested and jailed onan attempted second-degree murder charge “and other felony charges.”

On Saturday, Fox News reported that “Madrid has been booked into jail on a charge of second-degree murder.”

The National Desk has reached out to the Phoenix Police Department to confirm both what charges Madrid currently faces and the status of the suspected serial shoplifter. TND was then referred to theMaricopa County Attorney’s Office, which has not responded to a request for information.

Family Dollar Stores LLC Pleads Guilty to Holding Consumer Products under Insanitary Conditions, Agrees to Pay $41.675 Million in Connection with Rodent-Infested Warehouse

For Immediate Release

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Largest Ever Monetary Criminal Penalty in Food Safety Matter

Family Dollar Stores LLC pleaded guilty today to holding food, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics under insanitary conditions, related to a rodent infestation at the company’s West Memphis, Arkansas, distribution center.

A criminal information unsealed today in federal court in Little Rock, Arkansas, charged Family Dollar with one misdemeanor count of causing FDA-regulated products to become adulterated while being held under insanitary conditions. The company, a subsidiary of Dollar Tree Inc., entered into a plea agreement that includes a sentence of a fine and forfeiture amount totaling $41.675 million, the largest-ever monetary criminal penalty in a food safety case. The plea agreement also requires Family Dollar and Dollar Tree to meet robust corporate compliance and reporting requirements for the next three years. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome T. Kearney presided over the company’s guilty plea and sentencing at today’s hearing.

“When consumers go to the store, they have the right to expect that the food and drugs on the shelves have been kept in clean, uncontaminated conditions,” said Acting Associate Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer.  “When companies violate that trust and the laws designed to keep consumers safe, the public should rest assured: The Justice Department will hold those companies accountable.”

“Companies distributing and selling food, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics must ensure that these products are being held in safe and sanitary conditions,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division. “The Justice Department will continue to work closely with the FDA to investigate and prosecute those who put public health at risk by failing to meet this important obligation.”

“Consumers trust that products purchased from retail stores such as Family Dollar are safe,” said U.S. Attorney Jonathan D. Ross for the Eastern District of Arkansas. “It is incomprehensible that Family Dollar knew about the rodent and pest issues at its distribution center in Arkansas but continued to ship products that were unsafe and insanitary. Knowingly selling these types of products not only places the public’s health at risk but erodes the trust consumers have in the products they purchase. Products shipped and sold are required to be safe for consumers and the safety of Arkansans and others are extremely important to this office. Let me be clear, if you conduct business in Arkansas and allow the shipment or sale of unsafe and insanitary products, you will be held accountable.”

“U.S. consumers rely on the FDA to ensure that their food is safe and wholesome,” said Special Agent in Charge Charles L. Grinstead of the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA-OCI) Kansas City Field Office. “When companies put themselves above the law and distribute food that has been held under extremely insanitary conditions, putting the public’s health at risk, we will see that they are brought to justice.” 

In pleading guilty, the company admitted that its Arkansas distribution center shipped FDA-regulated products to more than 400 Family Dollar stores in Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee. According to the plea agreement, the company began receiving reports in August 2020 of mouse and pest issues with deliveries to stores. By the end of 2020, certain stores reported receiving rodents and rodent-damaged products from the warehouse. The company admitted that by no later than January 2021, some of its employees were aware that the insanitary conditions caused FDA-regulated products held at the warehouse to become adulterated in violation of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA).

According to the plea agreement, the company continued to ship FDA-regulated products from the warehouse until January 2022, when an FDA inspection revealed live rodents, dead and decaying rodents, rodent feces, urine, and odors, and evidence of gnawing and nesting throughout the facility. According to the plea agreement, subsequent fumigation of the facility resulted in the reported extermination of 1,270 rodents. On Feb. 18, 2022, the company voluntarily recalled all drugs, medical devices, cosmetics, and human and animal food products sold since Jan. 1, 2021 in the 404 stores that had been serviced by the warehouse.

FDA-OCI Special Agents Chad Medaris and Daniel Allgeyer investigated the case.

Senior Litigation Counsel Patrick Runkle and Trial Attorney Alisha Crovetto of the Civil Division’s Consumer Protection Branch and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Julie Peters and Cameron McCree for the Eastern District of Arkansas prosecuted the case.

Additional information about the Consumer Protection Branch and its enforcement efforts can be found