To buy a gift for her son, mother deceived Walmart on 1800 dollars
'11.11.2017'
Source: USA Today
25-year-old Cheyenne Amber West of Fort Pierce, Fla., Arrested on charges of fraud and the actual theft of goods from the electronics department of a Walmart supermarket, writes USA Today.
The customer managed to trick the automatic barcode reader at the self-service counter by paying the entire 3 dollar 70 cents for electronic equipment and gadgets for the total cost of 1824 US dollars. How did she do it?
As the deputy sheriff was told by the staff Walmart, they noticed that West, together with another woman, chose computers in the electronics department, and also studied other gadgets from this department. Cameras recorded how West re-stick barcodes on expensive equipment with cheaper goods. After that, the woman carried the goods to the self-service cash desk, where she paid the dollar for 1821 less than it should according to the store's price list.
The offender herself said that “she was just trying to buy gifts for her son, which she could not afford, and a computer for her husband, because he deserved something pleasant”. The woman was arrested on Tuesday and imprisoned with $ 3000 bail. The second participant in the re-gluing of the barcodes was not charged.
