Teh One Who Knocks
10-18-2012, 10:49 AM
NW Florida Daily News
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DESTIN - A woman who was stopped outside a discount store with a shopping cart full of sports equipment, toys, and bedding she hadn't paid for told an Okaloosa County Sheriff's deputy she thought what she and her male companion were doing was illegal, but she didn't know exactly what was going on.
On Oct. 15 a deputy was in the parking lot of Walmart on Emerald Coast Parkway when he was notified by a store employee a woman was shoplifting. The deputy found the alleged shoplifter, 44-year-old Hope Davies Gibbons of Fort Walton Beach, just inside the store's side exit.
The employee told the deputy he saw the woman and an unidentified man choose two sets ot Titech golf clubs, then proceed to the infants department and take a Fisher Price Project Mobile toy. They also took a bed set, which they placed under the golf clubs.
He said they split up and Gibbons pushed her shopping cart to the side exit, passing multiple points of sale. She was stopped at the door. A 36-count pack of Intech Beta golf balls was also among the items in the cart, bringing the total to $312.66.
This sequence of events was confirmed by another store employee, who said he watched Gibbons push the cart past multiple points of sale without paying for them.
Gibbons said she was at the store with a male companion, who told her had receipts for the items. He allegedly went outside to get the receipt but never returned. Gibbons admitted she believed what they were doing was somehow illegal, but said she didn't know exactly what was going on.
The arrest report didn't indicate if her male companion was located or charged with a crime.
Gibbons was charged with felony-level larceny. Her court date is Dec. 4.
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DESTIN - A woman who was stopped outside a discount store with a shopping cart full of sports equipment, toys, and bedding she hadn't paid for told an Okaloosa County Sheriff's deputy she thought what she and her male companion were doing was illegal, but she didn't know exactly what was going on.
On Oct. 15 a deputy was in the parking lot of Walmart on Emerald Coast Parkway when he was notified by a store employee a woman was shoplifting. The deputy found the alleged shoplifter, 44-year-old Hope Davies Gibbons of Fort Walton Beach, just inside the store's side exit.
The employee told the deputy he saw the woman and an unidentified man choose two sets ot Titech golf clubs, then proceed to the infants department and take a Fisher Price Project Mobile toy. They also took a bed set, which they placed under the golf clubs.
He said they split up and Gibbons pushed her shopping cart to the side exit, passing multiple points of sale. She was stopped at the door. A 36-count pack of Intech Beta golf balls was also among the items in the cart, bringing the total to $312.66.
This sequence of events was confirmed by another store employee, who said he watched Gibbons push the cart past multiple points of sale without paying for them.
Gibbons said she was at the store with a male companion, who told her had receipts for the items. He allegedly went outside to get the receipt but never returned. Gibbons admitted she believed what they were doing was somehow illegal, but said she didn't know exactly what was going on.
The arrest report didn't indicate if her male companion was located or charged with a crime.
Gibbons was charged with felony-level larceny. Her court date is Dec. 4.