On March 8th, 2024, police in New Jersey arrived at a local Walmart regarding a detained individual for shoplifting. The suspect had been stopped by store personnel for skip scanning over $500 of merchandise and was awaiting police intervention. Here's what occurred. Oh, no, stop, bro. Damn. Yes. Yes. Hello. How you guys doing? Hello. All right, no worries, man. Are you pregnant? Are you good? Do you know anything about the stuff that's not scanned? No. No? Okay. You guys have any complaints? Yeah. Um Hi. Hi. How are you doing? Good. Um the stuff that is not getting scanned is outside. Like I'm sorry, like All the stuff that is not getting scanned is outside. Okay. And what if those three cars that you see out here, those are scanned and the other two on this side are stuff that's not scanned. Okay. Um let me call you guys cuz he's the one that has the receipt, but it was $522. Okay, so definitely you guys are pressing charges? >> Yeah. All right. I want you to tell him to watch the scanning. Huh? You're saying it was $522 worth of scanning? >> Yeah. We went We went through all four of your receipts. All four of them, nothing was missing. We did it on the computer. We didn't We didn't do it on the app. How is that possible? If I scanned everything >> cops in the front? I scanned everything to to the thing. I'm visually impaired so whatever I didn't see I assume a mistake. Yeah, but even if it's a mistake we this our policy. Once the But I can pay for everything. So like I explained to you when you go to self-checkout you are responsible for everything that happens in self-checkout. So I'm saying if it was a mistake I can pay for everything. Like I'm 6 months pregnant to go and I never ever have a record. Like my record's super clean. Well, that's between you guys. Yeah. Like I can pay for everything right now. No problem. So I I have to follow my policy. I'm sorry. There's nothing I can do. So we have Yeah, we have to press we have to press charges. There's nothing I can do. Put the cuffs in front. Oh, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Can I call my mom or somebody? Like this is a mistake. This is not This is I can pay for these things. Listen to me. I'm going to explain to you your process, all right? It's not the end of the world, all right? You're just going to be processed. You're going to be released on a summons. That's all. I don't live out here. Let me get Let me get your stuff. I don't live out here. I live in New York. I'll send you a bill. My whole family's in New York. You're not going to go to jail or anything like that. You're just going to get a ticket and you'll go to court. That's it. That's about But I don't live out here. That's what I'm trying to explain. >> released though, regardless. We're going to take you in and process you and you'll be released. So it's going to have to be a summons. It's just without future court. I don't even know what that is. I've never ever been You're going to have to court nothing. You'll have a court date and then you will actually go to court for for this situation. But you'll be you'll But that's what I said if I have some money to pay for my mistake cuz I'm visually blind and I didn't [snorts] see like things that weren't scanned. I'm not understanding why I can't pay for it. Like I don't live out here, ma'am. I'm 6 months pregnant. My whole family's in New York. I don't have nobody out you were It was a two honest mistake. I never have stolen. I don't have a record. I don't have no type of criminal record. I understand that, but when you go like I explained to you when you first came in the office, I don't know if you heard me. Walmart isn't allowed to research this over $25, but because we have a a deal with them, we have to call them. >> you said it was $200, but it was a mistake. >> I I got I understand that, but if I don't if I don't follow my policy, I can get in trouble. So, I don't I'm covering my back right now, and it's really as I as much as I can, and I want to help, and I want to I have to follow my policy because this was called out by one of one of our managers, so I have to do it. What What What was the uh Um Josh has the receipt, but it was one I last checked was 522. All right. Are you saying it's 104 and 104? No, I did the purchases in different like I purchased like I did a cart, I put it away, and I put it away in the front desk, and I did another cart. So, everything wasn't at the same time. Everything wasn't at the same time. Like when I came, I said like regularly >> and she had a lot of stuff. I said we also went through the receipt. That was saved for her in customer service. So, when she was leaving, we stopped her for the cart that we stole her at this time. So, we had to go through all receipts. We went through all four receipts, and whatever's in there this just wasn't in none of the receipts that we all out of all four. But, this is how much it was. That's what I'm saying. Here you go. I didn't steal it. I can pay for it, but it wasn't something that I did purposely. I promise you I did not do that purposely. Okay. How many mistakes did you make? It was a probably How many times? Four times that you went in and out? No, I did one transaction, and then I did another transaction. Yeah, I did it both. I didn't [laughter] steal. Like I wasn't doing that. Okay. I just did one transaction self-checkout, and then I did the ultimate self-checkout. She saw me with She showed me what this thing that I did in the past, and I honestly said that I have a vision problem. Maybe I didn't see it past, but I did do the scanning through. >> is you purposely put your hand under the barcode and would scan what you want. >> No, I didn't do that. I mean, I have it on video. And then ultimately, they want to press charges. There's nothing much you can You can explain that to the judge, all right? We're not going to have to cuff you in the back because you're pregnant. Just put your hands behind Can I call my mother and let her know? >> I'll I'll give you I'll allow you to call. For now I don't I don't even know her number by heart. Like, I don't even know what I'm doing by heart. >> to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. I didn't I didn't do it on purpose. I swear to god. I didn't do it on purpose. I swear to god. >> that to the judge, all right? We're just going to process you, okay? They have video of it. You go to court, and you settle with the judge, all right? You can explain that to him that you are legally blind or whatnot. You made a mistake. That's up to you and the court, all right? Right now, you're going to be placed under arrest. Put your hands behind your back. Like You all this freaking crazy right now, though. Do you have a driver's license or an ID? >> [snorts] >> Do you have my phone? So, what happens to the rest of my my food for my family? All right, what's going to happen to the rest of your food? I mean We can See what you're getting. We can give her No, since she's Yeah, so if she if she's going to have to come and get her get her after I can't. It will have That's really tight. I can't. I don't have a car, mama. Like, I don't live here, and I don't have a car. So, how am I going to get my stuff? Nobody knows? She's going to get a refund for what? Yeah, she's going to get a refund, but she got EBT. I don't want a refund. My kids are hungry at home. I want my food to give to my kids. Can someone else pick it up? No, nobody can else pick it up. Who's going to pick it up? I told you I don't live in Jersey. >> you come here? I came in a cab. Okay. Well, after you get released, we can bring you back here and you can get in our car back home with your stuff. That's it? This is crazy right now. What's your place? 66 66 66 205 I'm going to give you a video of what I'm going to uh I need you I'll be here, so Ashley Crazy. All this stuff inside it's uh It's all hers. are her stuff that she paid for. Okay. Okay. All right. Who's going to uh I'm going to give you the statement? Okay. You are the Okay. All right, 66 at the camera is coming back to when Ashley Murray was You're also married. That's so much. So Today is Friday uh March 8th. Time is 6:35. Officer Castillo with Mr. Joshua Nunez. Joshua, what do you do here? What's your occupation? >> associate asset protection investigator. Uh so can you explain to me what happened today? So I was watching the self-checkout and I noticed that um she would scan an item and then put her hand under the more expensive item covering the barcode and would pass it. Okay. So making pretend she's scanning but then she's like avoiding scanning because she's covering the barcode. Okay. So you saw that through the CCTV footage or you were personally by the employee? I saw it by CCTV footage on camera. All right. And then what happened? So um we paused the transaction. We let uh associate go over there try to help her. Basically giving her the chance to fix her wrong and she continued to do the same thing. Um she paid for some items. She didn't pay for the these items right here. Um she passed all points of sale. And then that's when I stopped her in the vestibule. I approached her. I told her my name. I told her that I work for Walmart and I'm an asset protection investigator. There's some stuff in the cart that's not scanned and I brought her back. Okay. Uh sounds good. Uh this concludes the uh official statement. The time is now 6:37. All right. No. [snorts] No. No. I already tried. They say that the way I hold it it looks like I was being sneaky and all this extra [ __ ] No, they're saying I can't pay for it. It's part of the store. That's what I said. Why? I'm going to He said I'm getting right out. That's what the officer just said. He said he's going to take me back to Walmart to get my stuff. Yeah, they just want to freaking put me as that I stole. So now I have to see a judge and come back to Jersey for a freaking case. For nothing I didn't do. This is the manager? Yes. I don't come over here alone. >> [music] >> Yes, yes, I have my office weapon and stuff. It's in my pocket, boy. Everything's going to go with you, okay? Anything else? No, that's it. Officer. You want to put that airpod in here or No, you can leave it on my ear. It's fine. Okay. We're going to go that way, all right? Thank you. All right. Thank you, officer. Hold on. >> [music] >> Open it up. I think it's locked. >> [music] >> You know what? Would you mind if I step out and just see her her waist really quick? Yeah, put put that stuff in the front. Step out with you? Put that stuff in the front. Yeah. There's nothing on my waist. Yeah, I know, but we have to check you without this. I'm sorry. >> What waist you talking about? Yes, we have to check the shirt. We have to check. Ma'am, you are arrested. You know why you are arrested? We need to check for weapons >> cuz I never been arrested. What the [ __ ] I'll have a weapon with once y'all pregnant. Right. Sector 3 and Sector 4. Safe. Clear. >> Sector 3 and Sector 4 is going to be 1502 46th Street for a black male wearing all black with a knife outside causing a scene and attacking people walking by. You can move over. Go ahead. Go ahead. 1502 46th Street Yeah. All right. Ready? Let's go. Clear on the front. All officers in the front. He's right over there. He's done. Actually I don't know what that red dot is. But they got it outside. Have you ever hit that before? Never. >> The suspect was transported to police headquarters for fingerprinting and processing. She was officially charged with shoplifting. Following processing, she was released on a summons and given a scheduled court date. Please leave a comment and of course don't forget to like, share, and subscribe for new videos. >> [music] [music]