A forty-three-year-old Chattooga County woman was arrested at Walmart in Trion after loss prevention employees accused her of hiding items in a pocketbook and attempting to leave the store without paying. 

A responding deputy was shown surveillance video of the woman with a purse she picked up off the shelf at Walmart and then stuffed the pocketbook with several items.  Once at the checkout line, the woman paid for items in her buggy, but not the purse or the items in it.  When confronted by Walmart employees, the woman at first handed the pocketbook and its contents over to the employees and then grabbed a Hershey’s chocolate bar and stuffed it in her shorts and tried to flee the scene.

Once she made it out of the store, the woman reportedly flung the chocolate bar in the field close to the store.  Employees caught up with the woman and escorted her back inside the store.

Selena Elizabeth Cagle was arrested and charged with theft by shoplifting and was permanently banned from Walmart in Trion.