on Sunday March 10th 2024 officers were dispatched to JC Penney for a retail theft in progress while on Route officers were advised a black male in black sweatpants and a black hoodie later identified as chis Tolbert exited JC Penny and was seen by the malls food court where he ran from JC Penney loss prevention and was last seen running into sushi bar restaurant here's how it unfolded hands right stand up follow my orders right now call saying they're they're getting calls from employees un saying someone is in the restaurant understand okay I'm asking where being detained don't have nothing so we find further information just give us a just hang time shter Lincoln 6 where's our original complainant can you come out here to R all right listen man so what's going on is there's an investigation oh you're at R right now 64 I'll have them step out so we got information subject like you mentioning a description okay where are you where are you coming from you want me to me air of pants they I can't stop me outside which guy some some guy that was on the phone the whole time following me okay and he said that I stole something sure I didn't want no problem I gave him the bag and say oh you showed me a little bag you show me a little bag so I gave him the bag like I don't no trouble help like you come with me and I'm like come with you well you you know I'm not understanding what he's saying so so I took off running and I came up okay so that's why we're here to figure out okay at this point in time all right I'm just going to let you know you are to just because until we until we can figure out more okay all right we're calling the complaintant back asking him to have them step out talk you so how about let's let's go back up we're going to go towards the JC pan get them figured out okay so go ahead and stand up for me make your own driver from Safar land 71 West North Avenue eastbound North Avenue grv being depart I'm sorry this is L so just when just go do what you got to do come back and come to lumbar all right go phone down AER we're going to head back to JC Penny and get that figured out okay for the male 64 make your own let me double lock it so it doesn't sign up on your is this yours buddy that's theirs all right let's go this way [Music] Lincoln sis we're going to make our way back to JC Penney have them meet us there they're not ask questions but whatever it is can I just pay for it out my pocket what uh that's going to be up to them so we that's why we have to go back there all right okay do you have a bag a what do you have anything on you that's going to poke stick or stab me I'm going to do a quick search phone just your phone can I can I I just want to look look I'm going this the phone I just want to call all right not yet let's I just want to call her tell her that she can come back up here and that if they let me pay for I'll just pay for it out my pocket I got my child's mother okay how about let's do that when we come back there when we go back there okay because we're going to we'll take the Cuffs off and we'll have you sit down and all that all right all right real quick I still got to do a quick SE is there a letter you have anything on you I got my hood in there my in the store got it all right yeah we'll get it all right the this yep can give me a call call it out and C going back to the JC Penny think1 going back to 14 yep wait pause uh okay sure sure no no I I got you okay cancel that uh transport can can all right so we're going to we're going to actually make this more easier for you okay we're going to have them come out here right and they're just going to take a quick look at you just make sure that you are the right person that we're they're looking for all right and then if if you're not the right guy then we'll cut you go we'll let you go and then if you are we'll just walk back and see what they want done does that sound fair okay okay but worst case scenario you just telling like even if because I come on you know I looked the part I I looked the part so even if they I look like I look whatever [ __ ] said I'm not done it's possible that they gonna say I did you get what I'm saying I looked the part you get what I'm saying like a criminal I look like a criminal I got tattoos on my face this that and the third I look like I'm from the streets you feel me so might be a good thing to just say yeah no case scenario I got money to cover it I just get them the cash for so we don't have to go through let let us work our process local man is on two di on too I have uh James come out and do a show up 22 I'm here with l do you mind if I smoke a cigar waight uh not right now but as soon as everything's all done cuz how are you going to smoke your cigarette with your hand and find it back and I'm not going to I can't I can't do that what going um we just had a call from GC pen oh is it this gentleman right yeah oh I don't know one so for R what's up what what is retail what is retail like what what like m tell you tell you what let me let me do something first cuz because you're in handcuffs and you know I want if you got questions I'd love to answer but yeah let me read you brand R for okay just understand just say yes or no if you understand or don't understand okay okay um you have the right to remain silent do you understand yes okay anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law yes you have the right to talk to a lawyer have him or her present with you while you being questioned do you understand yes cannot afford to hire lawyer one will be uh appointed to represent you before any questioning of you which do understand do you understand that yes sir all right you can decide at any time and exercise these rights and not make any questions or statements at this time do you understand yes okay so you had a question about what retail it was yeah I'm trying to see the actual Char well that depends okay so I don't I don't know what JC so that's why we have to go back to JC if we're all out and about it's harder to do the investigation so we're we're going to try to join everything up figure it out if if it's very low in or if it's very high in amount uh it it'll depend okay but retail theft in itself is I'm sure you know it's a charge right um if it's if it's like more than 300 bucks then then it gets into problems but if it's under then it' be a simple local charge local charge yeah what is that what is that a local Char so so there's there's three levels you know you know state federal felonies right me you have state misdemeanors and you have local local ordinances okay what's local local yeah between the village so like just the village is charging in rather than the entire State all right you would just go to it's like a traffic ticket it's like getting pulled over getting a speeding ticket that's the same thing as a local charge give me a ticket huh what I have to go to jail well I first I'm tell you that it's a [ __ ] it's a [ __ ] hoodie and a pear Pan the [ __ ] like $40 $60 right that's what it is it's nothing no hundreds to nothing take it out of the store without paying it no I had the hoodie I had a hoodie in my hand that I walked out you had a hoodie in your hand and you walked out of the store yeah okay why why why did we do that kind of low on cash I had to get arrested my baby mother so I pay for my daughter's and [ __ ] so she could go out and have a nice day and I needed a hoodie okay low on cash makes sense okay well no I appreciate your honesty man it was if it's if it let's tell you what if it's less than like a couple hundred if it's less than 100 be good all right it is I know it for sure all right you said a hoodie and a pants what else was just a hoodie and a pants okay what color was fale gray or you said okay dri well your cooperation goes away once they once they do the thing okay I appreciate you honestly being cool with me I'll try to be cool as best I can back to you okay um that depends on what JC Penny wants to do I appreciate your honesty and you know trying to fast forward this a bit but uh we just have to do our procedure first all right man where's where's uh where where is your baby mama right now is she out and about was she a part of this is just allum just trying to give her a good good date she got nothing she IDE okay un advisor Medics responding to 260 North on West Road 260 Northwest do you all do you all have a charger uh what kind of charger iPhone charger iPhone I do could you put my phone on just in case so you want me to do that appreciate dead it's got the Apple yeah she coming over here with them so who is that's coming so so what we what we have to do is do a show up okay so which means the JC Penny people have to come out and take a look see if you are the right person again it's a procedure now I'm I'm saying even if they say that I am the right person D huh even if they say I am the right person then then we have to go back to the JC pany uh they'll tell you what they want done and then they'll tell me their side of the story as far as the evidence and goes but I appreci but but like say that me me already telling you what I told you right yeah you admitted to steal to some to Su it all up I just pay for the [ __ ] like it won't like so that way you don't have to do no extra paperwork for no [ __ ] unfortunately man with this day and age it's all about the accountability so we got to do the paperwork regardless all right go ahead and step out for me we're have I got to reach over you get the laying down there so all I going to the station and just y'all know this for sure that's back a little bit so Y how far we are from the station uh it's only less than less than 15 minutes I want to say we'll give you the address 235 East Wilson when you you get back to station you can call whoever you want to call to come pick you up so so soon as I get that I can call sure all right but just once we get there we'll do the Chargers do all that and we'll be on our way all right 30 to 30 to an hour are you guys all good all right what's up video do you need to watch the video yeah I don't think so we can watch it later cuz he look to be honest with y'all he trying to be a [ __ ] and just trying to add her to it she she ain't have [ __ ] to do with that like I'm telling y'all like I'm I've been honest with y'all I don't have no reason to lie if she was with some [ __ ] I say she was with it she wasn't with none of this [ __ ] like I said man hey we're not charging her or anything we don't even know know who she is okay so just it's only you all right that's all it is let's go Ln to the station so y time now I got to go to court for it you will have a court date and y'all going to give it to me yep with with all the paperwork it it it's a lot easier if I show you the paper and that way you can reference it later rather than just meing telling so it's like once y'all done typing up the paperwork that's when I leave uh yeah so I'm I'm going to break it down to you we get back to the station you're going to get search one more time and then you're going to have have a seat on a bench you'll be handcuff to the bench uh my partner here he's going to ask you some intake questions um standard procedure of just anyone who comes into our station right you'll have a booking questions you'll get fingerprint photographed and then he'll type up the charges which should take no more than like 10 minutes to present it to you you will be on your way during that time you can make your phone calls if you sound Square yeah that's cool just one thing uh you can't text and you have to use the phone on the wall but if there's a phone number you want to get out of your phone we can help you with that so as is it like a pre I got A's up is it a free call yeah of course you you you stay cool with us like you said I'll give you more than three calls you get you're supposed to get only three calls but I said is it a free call it is free I ain't ask for three I only need one that's good so with or without anybody com coming up that y'all still releas me uh I mean yeah yeah pretty much once we're all done with our paperwork you'll be released from the station and then uh you can have you can call someone to come pick you up or if you want to walk you can walk it's a nice day out I don't I want to get the hell out this town as soon as possible sounds good I honestly think they booted them clothes up cuz that [ __ ] was on [Music] sale something about said $110 that's how much it was $110 $10 you said it cost the the outfit was $110 yeah $1 15 yeah I got on I got on these same pants right now and on he paid $20 for these I think they just basically took the sale that it was originally off since it basically was stolen so I guess they didn't give me to sell as if like I was a customer they just whatever the price was originally that's what they put it as usually when youing off it said 30% off so I know this hoodie or these pants wasn't $100 that's like design oh [ __ ] man so Mr man you can't you can't go to penitentary for this can for this type of particular case in your Cas more likely not there's never there's never set stone answer there's always you so J police station on Road about uh just just just right north of about we'll give you directions don't worry uh for [Music] whoever for did you put it on my phone on the charger yeah it's on it's charging right now thank you I appreciate it of course INRI be holding up dog at 120 West and a friendly [ __ ] so if it was 300 that would make a set a felony that makes it a felony yes also having prior just the retail th prior to retail yeah Mr Tolbert was positively identified by JC Penny staff as the shoplifter he was charged with one count of misdemeanor retail theft Class A he was released on his own recognizance where