Fullerton, Second-Time Shoplifting, $450 Item, No Jail

Our client, age 35, went into a Target in La Habra and proceeded to place a blender priced at $449.99 in her shopping cart. She then walked around the rest of Target and selected some flash cards for her kids, ages five and nine, to help them learn better English and math.

Summary: Client arrested for shoplifting a $450 blender at the La Habra Target, as well as some flashcards for her children. This was her second shoplifting offense. Case resolved at the Fullerton Courthouse with no jail and just a $150 fine, plus penalties and assessments, and three years of informal probation.

Loss prevention at Target was apparently familiar with this modus operandi and quickly stopped her outside the store before she could get too far. They escorted her back into the store to the loss prevention office and inventoried her cart full of items.Inside of a Target Store

The store called the La Habra Police Department, who came to the Target and cited and released her on a promise to appear in the Fullerton Superior Court in about two months. In other words, the police did not take our client to the police department for booking.

The detention by loss prevention meant our client’s children were not picked up from school, so her husband was called, who became alarmed by his wife’s failure to pick up the kids. He called her cell phone several times, with no success. When she finally returned home, she explained what had happened.

The husband called Greg Hill & Associates the following day and scheduled a meeting with Greg that afternoon.

The husband, the wife (the client) and Greg met and discussed the facts of the case. The wife surprised her husband by disclosing to Greg that ten years earlier, before the two were married, she had been convicted for shoplifting in a similar factual scenario.

Fullerton Courthouse

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