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So, we have an associate
that drop one thing that you need for
that real quick. Um, the first step we
found
under running back through card
transactions and stuff was February 28th
and the last one we were able to find is
the 15th of this month.
Um, through that time
7685.
Yeah.
No.
 Um what she's doing is she's just
covering barcodes on stuff. There are a
few transactions in there um where she's
buying $70 worth of stuff, but she
covers the barcode on one or two things.
So um and then there's two transactions
where she just turns the barcode away.
One of them was a tea that she actually
had upside down. Her hand was covering a
barcode then too.
 Um and then the other
one was a PD light that she just turned
away and cross. So there's the list of
stuff there on CD as well.
 Okay.
 Did you
want to look at any video before we went
back or
Oh, sure.
 Don't these people know how
good you are at your job, Zane?
 Um do
you feel insulted? Yeah. I don't
know. Um, she looks at the barcode. She
reaches over, grabs it with her right
hand, covers the barcode, and just the
cost of them. Pays
96. Sandwich was 4.77 or 57. What's her
job here?
 She is an overnight mod
setter, so she sets the the shelves when
the new stuff comes in.
 Say she does
check out the stuff. Um, okay, that's
good enough for me. Okay, I believe I
read this stuff.
Um, and they did ask if at all possible
she could be handcuffed and walk through
the the grocery side. They're trying to
set an example.
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So
she Yeah, they're in back. Right.
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American we got we did inventory last
week. Last week. Um, we didn't we
actually dropped a whole bunch. We
dropped
6%. So, anything under one's really
good.
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99. It's
 all cuz of you,
Z. About all that.
 Well, a large portion
of it. I mean, you catch a lot of people
and I'm sure word of mouth spreads.
Yeah. Here. is a good spot to steal from
Walmart.
 Yeah, Clarkson Walmart has to
be just gold mine. They lock up like the
cosmetics and stuff. I was blown away.
We went to one in California. Everything
was locked.
 Oh my gosh.
 It was like you
couldn't even get like soap.
That's what I was talking about. The one
in question is like that that section of
like cosmetic area where you buy soaps
and like facial soap.
 They have a comb
for my like a brush. It's a brush. She
like I have to call someone to get a
brush. This is
crazy. And there's places.
 Oh yeah.
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Yeah, they steal.
It's been a few years ago when I was
talking I was up to the Valley store in
Spokane and I was talking to the
 the
manager local.
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Ah, good answer. We are in
Hello, Gordon.
Um, we're done with kind of all the
internal stuff.
 Yes. Okay.
 Um, she did
say she has some stuff you said was in
the locker in the break room.
 It's in my
bag in the break room.
Stuff that you collect.
 He He needs a
card and a badge.
 Oh, gotcha. Gotcha.
Okay. Just uh obviously they've kind of
handled the internal stuff here. Um, you
know, my job is to to talk to you about
kind of what's happened and and see um
about kind of our role in all this. Um,
are you willing to talk with me kind of
about what's going on?
 I can, but other
than the statement that I gave you, I
don't know what else
 you guys you made a
written statement. Yes, sir.
 Okay. Um,
well, let me just start and I want to
make sure that you know your rights and
that you're talking to the police and
whatnot. Um, you do have the right to
remain silent. Anything you say can be
used against you in a court of law. You
have the right to attorney. If you
cannot afford an attorney, one will be
appointed for you without cost be so
desire.
 You can exercise these rights at
any time and have an attorney present
before and during questioning and you
are being hiding on video recording. So,
you're not under arrest right now. Um I
all I know is that you're you've been
alleged to have stolen some stuff here,
not running some some uh about $70 worth
of goods here um over the last couple
weeks or whatnot. So, that's what I'm
here to think. Stealing is a crime, so
you could be arrested for that.
You want to tell me kind of or did you
write a statement?
 I did write a
statement. Yeah.
 What does the statement
say?
 I wasn't aware that I was
 taking
items that had not been scanned through
the store and that they weren't being
purchased.
Okay.
 Do you think
that's that's possible to consistently
not be able to do use the selfch
checkout?
 Whenever I come to a problem
that I know that the register has said,
hey, there's a problem, I go and get
someone to come and fix it. Gotcha. Do
you look at how much things cost when
you purchase them?
 No. That's part of
the problem is is that I when my run my
debit card I'm not aware of what the
price ended up saying?
 Are you uh this
is kind of an odd question mark. Are you
hard of hearing at all? Are you able to
hear?
 No, but my site isn't always that
great. So I don't pay attention.
 So I
I've used it and it's been a minute, but
it makes a sound right when something
gets scanned.
 No, I guess I don't know.
I don't even think about it.
Okay.
Are you literate and able to to read a
computer screen?
 I am able to be
insulting. I'm just trying to make sure
that that's not that's not a a
disability issue or something like that.
But the
screen I've been here a few times.
Pretty easy to use.
 I understand. But at
2:00 in the morning and on my lunch
break in between my first part of my
shift and the second part of my shift,
I'm just scanning stuff and swiping my
card and taking it out to my car or
taking it to lunch. That's all I'm
doing.
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Is it
odd that you consistently have your hand
or something covering the merchandise?
 I
don't know. I mean, you know, you you
boo and you grab it and it covers one
barcode and it doesn't cover another
barcode. They're not always in the same
place.
 So, kind of the issue is in
viewing the video, it looks like you
move it intentionally and manipulate it
in order to cover the barcode. That's
what I saw.
 Well, I'm not trying to
Okay. Well, and you know that the the
barcode reader has to see the product
and if your hand is there, it's
obviously not going to see the product.
And so like the combination of those
things, right, that there's no change on
the screen, there's no
sound, your hands in front of there, the
price is wrong would lead a reasonable
person to think that
 I'm not consciously
aware that I am not scanning something.
I I go and scan my I'm just taking my
lunch break and that's that's all that's
happening.
If if I brought this information to you
about somebody else, what would you
think about them?
 Well, I would think
the same thing that you think about me
in the moment.
 Okay.
 Cuz I mean, how
many different days are we on this?
 I
don't know.
 How many they tell you?
 They
showed me four, I think.
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Well, like I said, there are times when
something goes wrong and the register
says something is wrong. I'm going to go
and get management and it's not easy to
find them. If I was trying to steal from
the company, then I would have just
walked away and they would have a
register that's broken and and whatever
else. And I'm not walking away saying,
"Hey, I'm going to fix this or I'm just
going to walk out with it." If I'm aware
of the problem and it won't let me go
any further, then I go and get someone
to get help.
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Everything it sounds like was food or
perishable items. Mhm.
 All the stuff was
like food and perishable items for the
most part. It looks like
 machine.
 Yeah.
So, I don't think we need to recover
anything, right? We're not trying
to restitution.
 Fair enough.
Um, what's your status at the store
trespass and whatnot?
 Nothing. Okay.
Um, anything else, Jessica, that that I
should know about this? you know, I'm
going to explain what happened to our
prosecutor and what what she told me
here. I'd like to give you the
opportunity to be honest and and maybe
own up and say, "Hey, maybe I made a
mistake." And it's probably about $70
worth of stuff here, which is pretty
pretty civil and or minor and and and
whatnot. But I think the thing that we
look for is responsibility because if
someone's not taking responsibility, how
can we know it's not going to happen
again? If that makes sense. um when we
have someone who's not taking
responsibility and this is a mistake.
Well, this me you know is this something
that happens to other other stores and
other places as well in your life cuz a
lot of people shop and
 my statement is
as accurate as I can give you.
 I'm not
trying to take anything from the
company. I like shopping at Walmart. I
like working for Walmart. I wasn't
trying to steal anything.
Okay. So, we're going to walk over to my
patrol car. Um, I'm going to issue a
citation for theft in the third degree.
Okay. Um, and then you will be free to
go. We have stuff we need to get from a
law.
 All right. What does that mean?
You're going to have a court date and
you can talk to the prosecutor about
um, if they think this is reasonable
amount, there's that's a reasonable
explanation. I don't find it. um I find
that there's probable cause that you
committed a theft and that that's not a
reasonable um amount to of mistakes. So
that's that. So that's my thought.
Prosecutor may see it your way or not.
He may say, "Hey, you get charged up,
but I'm an issue. That's something you
have to go to court and talk to them
about."
Okay. You want we'll follow you and get
your uh get your badge and
whatnot. is from to 11 p.m. Thank you
for shopping at home Walmart and have a
good
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night.
Hello Did
you have your ID real quick?
 Yes, sir.
Is it I don't want you to touch it. Is
that a box cutter in your back pocket?
Yes.
 Don't Don't touch it. Don't touch
it. That's what I just said. Just leave
it there for me, please. Okay.
Got it. Thank you.
All right, let's go outside to my
car. Get that stuff back to the store.
I'll follow you.
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Good night.
We'll be on this side.
Can you picture my back?
 Jessica.
Yes, but they can use it.
It doesn't matter. The the ladder's not
She's store used it for the mod crew,
but the ladder can be for all of the mod
crew. That wasn't my purchase.
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Yeah, I did purchase that myself.
Did you need to check my lunch box or
anything?
You said this side.
 Yep. We're right out
to the left of the door.
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All right, let's go to the second car.
and I'll just turn it off.
No, I'll get one for that. Um, it's up
to you. Do you want to sit in the back
seat or stand in the front?
It's up to you. You want to sit in the
back?
 Stand right there or sit in the
back. Sit.
I'm not going to You can put your stuff
down. You can put it on the hood of my
car. All I'm going to do is enter this
stuff in my uh computer, print you a
piece of paper, and you will be good to
go. So, you can put your stuff down.
That'll probably take me about 3 or 4
minutes.
 I may ask you a question or
two, but that'll be
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it. Okay, ma'am. Rip the corner off
there. It just has my name on it. The
only part that's not really important.
Um, so I'll give you that. But the case
numbers on top here, your information,
the location. Um, it's a theft third
degree, which is the lowest level of
theft, just a misdemeanor. And it's
multiple occurrences. I didn't charge
you theft on this day, theft on this
day, theft on this day. It sounds like
it's a whole bunch of little days. Um,
it's a mandatory court appearance.
They're going to mail you a court date
to your address in Albian. If for some
reason that gets lost in the mail, the
mail dog eats it or whatever. Make sure
you call the court. If you don't hear
from the court in about 15 days, um,
just as a phone number there, call them
and say, "Hey, I really like my court
date." The problem is is if they do not
hear from you, um
 then they think that I
abandoned
 and they'll give you they'll
give you a warrant and then you'll get
in physical custody, spend a weekend in
jail for this is not something that
you're spend any time in jail for.
 Um
 so
you said 2 weeks?
 Yeah, give it about 2
weeks. Um if you don't hear from them if
you want to call them next week, you
can't you can you call early that's
fine.
 Um cuz I'll have I'll have it I'll
have it to them um tomorrow. Okay.
 Um
that way or tomorrow the next day
whenever they give me all the the video
and and whatnot, but I think I think I
already have it.
 Then I go to
 they'll
give you they'll give you a date. um in
location. There's one in Pullman and one
in um Kfax. So um it'll be one of those
two locations. Okay. Um give me
questions.
Um I'm a little confused. You said
talking about the prosecutor and then
you said talking about court. So my
prosecutor is with the court. Prosecutor
is is the state and they represent the
state at the court. On the first
appearance, they're going to tell you
that you're being char what you're being
charged with. Um, and they they could
may be willing to talk with you about a
misdemeanor compromise, which is just a
option to kind of pay for the missing
goods
and not get in trouble again as an
option. I can't promise what they would
do. Um, they're not sending you to
prison or anything like that. It's not
going to be anything crazy. Um, but
they're they're they'll talk to you
about what they how they see the case,
if that makes sense. So, I'll give them
I collect the information. I'll give it
to them. They'll tell you how they see
it and what they think the the proper
path is. Um, you obviously have all your
rights. You can demand a trial by jury
and all those things that that you can
do. Um, so I don't want to make sure I
don't want to put those aside because
you have have rights that you can follow
that way. Um, but a lot of times they
call it kind of a courtroom work group
where they will try to to figure out the
best resolution um, for this. Does that
make sense?
 Yes.
 Okay.
 So, when I get
the court date, then I talk to the
prosecutor at the court date and then
there will be a prosecutor there. Yep.
You can always call their office too.
Um, they should have the case in a few
days.
 Okay. Thank you.
Yep. I'm gonna head back inside and uh
thanks. Thanks, Garrett.
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I want to show you one more video just
to
 clarify it in my mind.
 Like I said,
it's intent's very obvious on them,
 but
3351 is my case. If you want to write
that down,
 write it on this paper.
 No.
Okay.
25-p 3351
That could be
the 4987.
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I'd buy more than a sandwich if I was
going to
steal ribs or something, you know.
I stole 20 cans of coffee accidentally.
I had uh this one this one guy used to
steal it was a dirt bag and he stole one
time and I remember he stole a steak and
ribs and I was like you're the first guy
that actually did what I would have
done. It's like if you're going to steal
you're going to take the risk.
 What time
was that?
 You might as well get some
ribeye out of the deal.
 I was trying to
buy the rest of the coffee that we had
in stock and my selfch checkout
transaction didn't go through. I didn't
get a receipt and I freaked out. So with
this
one, she had back up.
 Yeah.
 Back
up. So she scans that butter, covers it,
and she has one in her other hand.
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Yay. Heat. Heat. N.
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