Criminals are not known for being the sharpest tools in the shed.
In Florida, they take things to another level.
And a Florida woman who turned crime into a game got this brutal reality check from the police.
Shoplifting is spiking across the country, often from soft-on-crime policies in Democrat controlled cities that refuse to prosecute thieves.
But one Florida woman turned shoplifting at Walmart into a game.
Florida woman arrested for shoplifting game
Amber McCann, a 30-year-old female, was arrested in the parking lot of a Walmart in Palm Coast, Florida, south of Jacksonville, by Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies.
Bodycam footage of the deputies show them questioning McCann about the theft of items from Walmart.
“We’re doing an investigation right now,” a deputy informed McCann in the parking lot. “Apparently someone walked out with . . .”
“A cart? Yeah, that’s me,” McCann replied.
McCann told police that she was playing a game called “21”, which involves putting as much merchandise as possible into a shopping cart and stealing it without getting caught.
Shoplifting game results in big loss to the police
“It was a game I was playing,” McCann said. “It’s really, really fun!”
“Well, it’s not a game, it’s theft,” a deputy replied. “Oh, going to jail is fun?”
“Am I going to jail?” McCann replied.
“We’ll see how much stuff you took,” a deputy responded.
On Monday, March 25, a concerned citizen contacted FCSO to report a shoplifter at a Palm Coast business. During the investigation, deputies determined the thief in question was also trafficking methamphetamine and other narcotics.
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The deputies arrested her and put her in the back of a patrol car.
She claimed that she put the merchandise she stole from Walmart into a random car but later admitted that it belonged to her boyfriend.
“My boyfriend doesn’t know that I steal. And he doesn’t know that I put all this s**t in the car, neither,” McCann said. “So I’m going to be really in trouble with him, but that’s the thing.”
After searching the car, the deputies found more than $1,000 worth of stolen merchandise from Walmart, along with marijuana, methamphetamine, alprazolam, and drug paraphernalia.
Also found in the car were silver, copper, and platinum bars.
That resulted in McCann being arrested for grand theft, multiple drug possession charges, and trafficking of methamphetamine.
“If she really thought she was playing a shoplifting game, she lost to our deputies and observant citizens,” Flager County Sheriff Rick Staly said. “Yet again, a ‘see something, say something’ caller directly contributed to the arrest of a thief and drug trafficker. Another out-of-town resident ‘just stealing material things’ from a big box store learned the hard way we enforce the laws in Flagler County and it’s illegal to steal. She may have skipped the checkout lane at Walmart, but she went through the express check-in at the Green Roof Inn with a free set of designer bracelets—aka handcuffs.”
Crime is not a game in the law-and-order state of Florida.
DeSantis Daily will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.
