A woman was arrested at the Summerfield Wal-Mart Sunday afternoon after a price-tag switch resulted in a bill for 86 cents for four pairs of women’s shoes.
A Marion County sheriff’s deputy was called to the store, located at 17961 S. Hwy. 27/441, after a loss prevention officer reported seeing 34-year-old Cillane Carol Beauchamp acting suspiciously in the shoe section of the store. He told the deputy that he watched Beauchamp select a few pairs of shoes, head toward the front of the store and appear to switch the price tags on the shoes with other items from a different department, a sheriff’s office report states.
Beauchamp then went through the self-checkout line, where the shoes rang up as different, lower-priced items. After paying 86 cents, Beauchamp started to exit the store and was stopped by the loss prevention officer, the report says.
After accompanying Beauchamp to his office, the loss prevention officer refunded her the 86 cents and recovered the shoes, valued at $69.68. He then called the sheriff’s office for help.
The deputy discovered that Beauchamp, who lives at 5356 SE 135th St. in Summerfield, was wanted on an active warrant for failure to appear in court on another retail petit theft charge. She was transported to the Marion County Jail and charged with larceny/petit theft and failure to appear in court on a previous larceny charge. She was being held on $500 bond on the new charge and no bond on the failure to appear charge.
Beauchamp is scheduled to be in a Marion County courtroom on Oct. 15 at 8 a.m. to answer to both charges.