- Cheyenne Amber West, 25, was apprehended at a Walmart in Florida on Monday
- She and her mother were seen picking out an HP Omen computer, video game controllers and other items from the electronics section around 5pm
- West replaced the barcodes of the items she intended to steal with barcode stickers of items from the clearance section
- At self-checkout, items that should have totaled $1,825.20 amounted to $3.70
- West was arrested and charged with felony grand theft and retail theft
- She told police she was getting gifts for her son ‘that I cannot afford’ and she was getting a computer for her husband after he bought her a Coach purse
A woman in Florida was arrested after trying to ring up almost $2,000 worth of electronics for $3.70 at a Walmart self-checkout.
Police say that Cheyenne Amber West, 25, was at the store in Vero Beach with her mother around 5pm on Monday.
Walmart security caught the pair picking out an HP Omen computer, video game controllers and other items from the electronics section.
Cheyenne Amber West, 25 (pictured), was charged with felony grand theft and retail theft after trying to steal almost $2,000 worth of electronics at a Vero Beach, Florida, Walmart on Monday
West then covered the barcodes of the items she intended to steal with barcode stickers of items from the clearance section.
The women then removed the security wrap from the controllers and the computer and discarded them on an empty shelf.
The total cost of the items amounted to $1,825.20 but, with the new barcodes, the women paid just $3.70 at the self-checkout.
It’s unclear at what point West and her mother were apprehended by a loss prevention officer.
West covered the barcodes of the items she intended to steal with barcode stickers of items from the clearance section. The total cost of the items amounted to $1,825.20 but, with the new barcodes, the items totaled at $3.70 (Pictured, Vero Beach Walmart)
‘I am just trying to get gifts for my son that I cannot afford. The computer is for my husband,’ West told a Florida deputy in the affidavit. ‘Since he just got me a Coach purse, I figured he deserved something nice as well.’
West was charged with felony grand theft and retail theft. She was released from Indian River County Jail on $3,000 bond on Tuesday.
Her mother wasn’t charged and told an officer: ‘I know what my daughter was doing, but I never walked out with anything, and she is just trying to get gifts for her son.’