Uh oh.
A pair of women stand charged with stealing almost $20,000 in goods from the Sephora and Gap stores in the West County Center in Des Peres, Missouri.
The Des Peres Police Department entered a probable cause statement with the charging documents, as is customary, stating that the shoplifting incidents in question began on February 25 and continued through the 19th of March.
According to police, Shenise Robertson and Aigner Carroll went into the center’s Gap store on February 25 just prior to 4:50 in the afternoon. Whilst in the store, the pair selected several articles of clothing, stuffed the items into shopping bags, and then walked out the front door without rendering payment for anything at all. The incident was caught on the store’s security video system. The value of the pilfered merchandise totaled up at $3686.45.
The next incident occurred on March 12, when Robertson, Carrol, and a third unnamed confederate entered the shopping center’s Sephora establishment slightly after 7:35 in the evening. Police allege that the pair lifted $4,259 in merchandise from the store’s display stands, concealed the items about their persons and belongings, and then, again, departed the store without the obligatory visit to the check-out stand. The trio then remained in the mall and made a visit to the nearby Gap, where they repeated the same routine and departed just before 8:00 PM. The damage for this second sortie of the day totaled up at $10,488.71. The surveillance systems in both stores recorded the women’s activities.
Then, between March 13 and 19, law enforcement alleges that Robertson and Carroll returned to the Sephora store on two separate occasions and made off with a further $1,408 in merchandise. The pair was arrested in the mall a short time after the final theft.
Carroll has been charged with four counts of theft exceeding $750, and Robertson with three counts of theft amounting to $750. They have both been summoned to appear before the court.
