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Two men are behind bars, accused of walking out of dozens of local Wal-Mart stores with carts full of stolen, high-end items.
On their first stop in Villa Rica in September, they stole four flat screen televisions, pushing their carts right out of the store. But it was at the Villa Rica Super Wal-Mart that investigators said Malcolm Smith and Roderick Jefferson, both 42, triggered an alarm that would put them on police radar.
“The store followed up trying to understand why the alarm went off. Their lost prevention people got to looking back at the video and actually saw what appeared to be two black males pushing two different shopping carts,” said Captain Brian Camp with Villa Rica Police.
One month later, they were back at the Villa Rica Wal-Mart. Surveillance video from inside the store in November shows Jefferson loading up a cart with three laptop computers. Right behind him, Smith moves in to grab the last laptop, even pausing a moment to look around at other items.
Police said a few minutes later, the duo jimmy the lock with screwdriver to a storage room thinking it was their exit, but instead steal even more.
“They took [eleven] printers, camcorders, and a desktop computer. Went out the exit door that went out the back of the store,” said Camp.
Police say Smith and Jefferson stole a total of $7,991 of items from the Villa Rica Wal-Mart during their two stops in September and November.
Wal-Mart security estimates Smith and Jefferson have shoplifted nearly $104,000 worth of electronics over the past 1.5 years from more than two dozen Wal-Marts and Sam’s Clubs in at least 12 different counties.
Police say the duo was “brazen” and their theft “well-orchestrated.” The two often returned the same store again and again.
The two men returned to the Villa Rica Wal-Mart for a third time on Wednesday. By then, they were so infamous, so recognizable, when they walked through the front doors, Wal-Mart security saw them on surveillance, and immediately knew who they were and what they were planning to do again.
Villa Rica police immediately arrested both men. Smith and Jefferson are each charged with two felony counts of theft by shoplifting in Villa Rica and face additional charges in a number of other counties.
On their first stop in Villa Rica in September, they stole four flat screen televisions, pushing their carts right out of the store. But it was at the Villa Rica Super Wal-Mart that investigators said Malcolm Smith and Roderick Jefferson, both 42, triggered an alarm that would put them on police radar.
“The store followed up trying to understand why the alarm went off. Their lost prevention people got to looking back at the video and actually saw what appeared to be two black males pushing two different shopping carts,” said Captain Brian Camp with Villa Rica Police.
One month later, they were back at the Villa Rica Wal-Mart. Surveillance video from inside the store in November shows Jefferson loading up a cart with three laptop computers. Right behind him, Smith moves in to grab the last laptop, even pausing a moment to look around at other items.
Police said a few minutes later, the duo jimmy the lock with screwdriver to a storage room thinking it was their exit, but instead steal even more.
“They took [eleven] printers, camcorders, and a desktop computer. Went out the exit door that went out the back of the store,” said Camp.
Police say Smith and Jefferson stole a total of $7,991 of items from the Villa Rica Wal-Mart during their two stops in September and November.
Wal-Mart security estimates Smith and Jefferson have shoplifted nearly $104,000 worth of electronics over the past 1.5 years from more than two dozen Wal-Marts and Sam’s Clubs in at least 12 different counties.
Police say the duo was “brazen” and their theft “well-orchestrated.” The two often returned the same store again and again.
The two men returned to the Villa Rica Wal-Mart for a third time on Wednesday. By then, they were so infamous, so recognizable, when they walked through the front doors, Wal-Mart security saw them on surveillance, and immediately knew who they were and what they were planning to do again.
Villa Rica police immediately arrested both men. Smith and Jefferson are each charged with two felony counts of theft by shoplifting in Villa Rica and face additional charges in a number of other counties.
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