What did you throw over there? All right. Where are you going? >> Hey. Hey. Come over here. All right. Stop. Come over here. Come over here. No. No. No. Please. Please let me go. >> I'm not going to Please. Please. Please. >> Okay. Hold on. Please. I'm telling on my hands right now. Please. Please. And then I was like, "Are you in the shop?" >> On September 7th, 2025, an officer from the Flaggler County Sheriff's Office entered a Walgreens and Palm Coast to use the restroom. While in the store, the officer noticed a woman taking products out of their packaging and putting them into her pocket, effectively committing shoplifting in progress. >> No, I didn't. I was putting this >> What did you throw over there? >> Can you check for me? >> Do you guys have camera footage at all? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. All right. Where you going? Okay. Hey. Hey. Come over here. All right. Stop. Come over here. Come over here. No. No. No. Come over here. Please. Please let me go. Please. I'm not going to Please. Please. Please. Please. Wait. Stop. I'm I'm being Hold on. Please. I'm telling on you my hands right now. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Give me. I'll I'll give you 1129 to Echo 226. Can you come up? I'm in front of Walgreens 5,000. I got to see. >> I will I will give you everything. >> Okay. Come. We're not doing. >> Put your hands behind your back. >> I will give you everything. >> Okay. I promise. I'm telling you. I will I will give you everything that I have. >> I just want to shoplifting in front of me. Tell them. >> I know. Wait. Wait. Your hand. >> Okay. Drop that. >> Wait. >> Stay back. Stay back. >> Step back. >> Please. I'm telling you. I'm going to give you >> Okay. >> Put your hands behind your back. I'm not kidding right now. Put your hands behind your back. The shoplifter, later identified as 36-year-old Mia Alexa Richardson, had just pulled off the brilliant move of stealing right in front of an officer, confident it would all work out in the end. The moment she started running, she wet her pants, a clear sign of just how desperate and terrified she really was. Fortunately for the Walgreens employees, the officer happened to be in exactly the right place at exactly the right time, leaving the woman with absolutely nowhere to run. >> Put your hands behind your back. Hands behind your back. >> You're resisting. You want to catch another charge. Right now, you're being detained. I'm telling you right now, if you keep if you keep resisting, you're getting another charge. >> Sir, you're going to go back there and stop. Walk away from us. >> I didn't mean to seriously. >> I literally just saw you right in front of me, girl. >> I got scared. >> I know you did. God, no. I'm struggling. >> No, no, no. Sorry. I'm not trying to trouble. >> No. >> No. Come on. >> Here. Sorry. Here. >> Put your hands like you're praying. >> Okay. >> Like you're praying. >> Jesus. I'm so I'm so sorry. >> You're lucky I didn't tase you. >> No, I I just got really scared. Okay. Sorry. >> You're good. >> I didn't mean to do that. I >> And you start walking away from me. I tell you to stop walking. >> I'm so sorry. I got really scared and then I went to put everything down. >> Do you have any weapons on you? >> No. Oh, I have a knife in my in my >> Do you have any on you? >> No. No, man. >> No, I have nothing right. I'm I'm so sorry. I really need I'm I'm just really I would like to do anything. But >> and these mints are not >> They're mine. >> They're mine from >> You don't have any or anything that's going to poke me, right? >> No, ma'am. No, >> I don't know. No. >> Can you go over there? Appreciate it. >> Mia was accompanied by a man in a red shirt who stayed outside while she carried out her wellplanned heist. She was visibly nervous, constantly apologizing to the officers and insisting that it would make up for what she had just done. Though, of course, it didn't. >> I'm going to read you your rights really fast, right? >> Oh my gosh. >> Doesn't mean you're arrested right now. You're just detained because you're not free to leave. Okay. >> Okay. I'm sorry. >> I mean, but you also when a deputy is telling you stop walking. You don't walk away. Okay. >> I'm so sorry. I'm so >> With that being said, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say maybe uses evidence against you, you have the right to talk to an attorney and have him or her with you now at any time during question. If you can't afford an attorney, one will be appointed to represent you. If at any time you wish to stop talking or have any attorney present, all question will be stopped your request. Do you understand these rights? With these rights in mind? >> Yes. >> All right. I'm clearly walking out. I see you grab something and you toss it. And I say, "What are you doing?" Right? You're really shoplifting in front of me. I know. >> And then you say, "I need to put something down." And then you continue to disobey lawful orders when I tell you to stop. That luckily if my partner wasn't right here, we probably would have been on the ground or I would have tased you. >> What did you shop for? I have I have makeup in my pocket. >> Did you pee yourself? >> I did. Yeah. >> Urinated on yourself. >> You have no Are you Are you on probation? >> No. >> Have you ever been arrested before? >> Like when I was like like 17 or 18? But >> Okay. So these are the only things. So is that makeup item as well? The same BB something >> in in in my pocket that I have on me. And it's because I >> What are you reaching for in your waistband? >> I'm trying to get the makeup that I have. Yeah, this is okay >> because like I literally moved here and start over >> in my whole life and I'm so sorry that I I did that and I'm like really I got really scared. >> You got really scared? >> I'm so sorry. >> So this and this >> and I'm this and this. I'm >> so sorry. Yeah. >> No, no, whatever is is on there. >> The more the officers searched her pockets, the more items they discovered hidden inside. According to Mia, she had just moved to the city hoping for a fresh start. However, shoplifting was clearly not the best way to go about it. She was visibly anxious throughout the encounter, but unfortunately for her, there was no way to undo what had already been done. >> So, I was leaving the bathroom and I saw her putting stuff in my waistband and then just toss someone and then I was like, "Are you going to shop in front of me?" And I sort of stopped walking and she starts walking. She was waiting for me in the car. So, that's why I got on the radio for her to come out because I'm trying to grab her and she's actively pulling, bracing, pushing. She pee, urinated on herself, so she's very scared. I haven't spoken with um Walgreens at all yet. Kind of all happy. I didn't want to press any charges about it. >> Okay. >> And that's where I'm at right now. >> Okay. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> So, let me go talk to them inside of there. >> Ma'am, what's your first name? >> It's Mia. >> Mia. >> M I A. Yeah, it's on my date. >> M I A. And your last name? >> It's Richardson. >> R I C H A R D S O N. >> And what's your date of birth? Yes. >> Where's your current address? >> Okay. So, right now I'm at um >> Who was that guy that you were with? >> That's my ex. >> Okay. Is he still here? >> Um I'm sure he would leave. >> Okay. >> Um I puffed her when the first thing I did was write her rights and she started talking. So these are all the items that I found on her person. I don't know what they will total or 104 15 20 33 tree is so >> the male if it's totaled over a 100 they want to >> charger her if not the male that's in that red tank top kept coming around the corner I told them to stay away just in case if he's over there >> yeah there's a couple that are definitely over like 15 bucks in there So >> yeah, it's close enough to where I'd probably do it. >> If you want to press I mean that's fine. We can >> if you guys can that helps us cuz we got to take her for resisting anyways. Okay. >> And so when they see it without a normal charge, >> right? >> Then it kind of loses its they're like okay well she was fighting you but like well she was leaving with the stuff. So the deputy did what she should do. So >> is there any way you can do an itemized receipt of these? >> I can do it. >> Yeah, I can do that. Mia had stolen 10 cosmetic items from the store, slipping them into her pockets before attempting to flee from the officer. According to the sheriff, she was certainly deserving of the dumb criminal of the week award for trying to steal right in front of a deputy. Now, the reality was finally sinking in for Mia, and she would soon face the fair consequences of her actions. >> I couldn't get a number out before the end of the night out of the phone to call. Yeah. >> Okay. It feels easy to unbuckle cuz I'm my belt is so tight. >> No, that's okay. Okay. Anything in your shoes or >> No, I can put >> I'll have you in one moment. Okay. I know it's okay. It >> helps too if you like get behind her and tell her lift this leg. You don't got any medical issues or anything like that? You can lift the leg. >> Yeah. >> All right. Lift that. Right. So, you're going to get here until I lift that leg and see. >> I'm sorry. But yeah, anyway. >> Okay. You're fine. >> I didn't see that. Forget about that. >> You good? >> What' you say? >> Sorry. This calls real quick. You good to go to the back? >> Can I just grab my two quarters? Grab my two quarters real quick. That way. Oh, I guess you don't have right. >> Yeah. Come on. >> Oh, where are we going? >> Going on the right or the left? >> You have to go butt in first. Okay. Just watch your head. >> You good? See, we like >> it's crazy. So crazy thing. >> In the end, Mia was charged with obstruction without violence, pettit theft, and trespassing from the store. She was later released on a $650 bond.