On January 20th, 2023, officers were dispatched to the popular Walmart in Athens, Georgia. People really like shoplifting here. Loss Prevention really has their hands full at this location. Today, we have a 55-year-old man that's been caught three prior times shoplifting. Today is the day he gets his felony shoplifting award. This is how it went. He's out there. Run across my guy. Stop police. I got one running blackmail. Uh black uh letter towards Hardy. All right, he's going out towards Lex Road. Right next to Hardy. Stop. Police. Black metal dinner in his pants. Black hoodie. Why you running? Who are you, dude? No, man. What's your name? That's why I stopped. But what's your name? Rodney. Rodney? What? Come on. Let's go in here and talk about this. All right. You did run. So I ain't going to. All right. I don't [ __ ] up. It's Rodney. What? I got him. Units can slow down. Not with Rodney. What's your date of birth, man? 67. 67. Did you grab my phone? Did you drop it? Yeah, I dropped it. I'm sure they got it. No, no, it's right out there in the parking lot. Where at? Right here by this hole. All right, we'll get it. Okay, I'm sorry. It's fine, dude. That's what it is. Did you drive here or did you walk here? I walked. You ever been arrested? I talked about You've been arrested for shopless on. How many times? You got three convictions. I got my phone right now. Okay. Yeah. So, you probably have the three convictions. Okay. Okay. This one's yours. Where you live, man? Oh, by cookout. Okay. Go ahead. Running history. I let you get here. I got you. 69 garage. Probably just need one more to come help me. 69 location. I'm walking back across the parking lot. Just need me at the office. I'm back in radio range now. I'm 108 stat 5 and stat 9 to Madison County and GS. I'm right here, man. What? We got a situation. The What do you mean? You sure you didn't drive? No. Oh, you got Yeah, I got keys. The the female some fine. Look right here. What's up? No, no, no. Thanks for running. 148. No, I I w I walked up. That's why I was like, "Go move." Because he I walked by and he Sorry. He's cooperative. He's just doing her job. I know. I understand. I understand. He's been told me he stopped. When I turned to look for the other guy, I saw him bagging the stuff. That's why I told you back off. I got you. Hey, what's up, buddy? How's it going? That's how you do it. You let Franco run for you, then show up. It's usually the other way around. You don't have an ID on you, do you? No, I don't. Give me the right name, right? Right. Making sure you don't have it on you. I just You've been arrested in Athens. Probation officer. Tell you what, you stopped when I said police. So, I'm not going to charge you with the truck. Charge with stop. Can we stop? He was stopped. You see lights and sirens or signs? I can't. I It sounded like uh I thought I saw blue lights. I haven't heard either. You want to go ahead tell him you're going to bar him for two years? Yeah. You just tell him. You're going to be barred for two years. That's his whole parking lot. So Hardy's all the way to the wing factory. Two years. We don't want to see you back. So you can't come back into this building or any of this cuz Walmart owns it all. You understand for two years? If you want you boys touching me for he says he's got three convictions. I'm going to confirm it. But um he I mean I'm still going to confirm before I Yeah. But you can get out down there. He's gone. Monday. So yeah, he'll be I appreciate you not making me run anymore. He'll be out in just a second. Is he done? I can put your glasses in your pocket. Okay. All right. You would have dropped your phone. You wouldn't think you would have shot. You're welcome. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Hey, that's why I'm not cuz I was just going to tell you, man. Thank you. No problem. Thank you. Really? You know. All right. I'll get the ER done. It's a bad situation. Thank you. Step out to your right. You got any knives or weapons or anything on you? Anything sharp or sticky? Okay. Yes, sir. I appreciate you. I mean, really, man. I really see I'm heading down the wrong wrong road. You know what I'm saying? Out here doing this. So, how old were you, man? It was 55, man. Still Oh, yeah. You way too old to be defense. Hell yeah, man. Man, I ain't no damn running, man. You got a car here? No, no, no, no. My car at your house. Okay. It It ain't It ain't running. Okay. Okay. I just key went because uh Yeah. Yeah. House key on my house key on there and everything. It's got two pockets in it. No. There you go. What's this hard stuff in the in the corner? Oh, yeah. Oh, no. Check it out. That's what I'm trying to do. Does it change? Oh, okay. Yeah. Glasses, cigarettes. Anything that we want to put in? Probably not, man. They'll get you sorted out quick enough, [Music] but good. Stay where you are. I I'll move around you. You do have an ID. That's not my ID. I found that little kid ID walking this way. Okay. Yeah, but that's not me right there. Okay. Yeah, that looks a little young to be you. Yeah. Where'd you find it at? Uh well, not walking this way. I was coming from the house. Okay. You know, getting on the bus. Okay. From West Bro. West Bro. Yeah. Okay. Just like at the bus stop off or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. One pair of pants, two shirt, two shirt. Wear two pair of pants. Two short pair of short. Well, I kind of draw underwear. You're not hot and all that? No, man. You know, I I dress for the You know what I'm saying? For the for the weather. I got later on if I if I do decide to stay out. Yeah. You got a place to stay, you homeless. No, no, no, no. I got some I got somewhere to stay. Okay. You face me and sit straight back. It'll be easiest. You can keep your feet on the seat cuz there's not a lot of room. And just kick straight back. And like I said, keep your feet this way if you need to. You didn't got to try to turn that way or anything like that. Keep this leg up if you want to. All right. No, I'm good right now. All right. That was in his pocket. Said he found it at the bus stop. Yeah. Not him. Yeah. The suspect was booked for felony theft by shoplifting.