
These included a $25 Luxury House Toy and $10.45 Fritos, the report said. After the store clerk entered each one that was taken, it amounted to 21 items. The officers had her place all the items from the store back into a shopping cart and went into the store to match them, the report said.ĭuring the investigation, it became apparent that each item that was scanned had a $1 barcode that was taken from another item and stuck onto the scanned item. Additionally, the receipt she handed the officers was addressed to a different Dollar General in Groveland. She was then asked how the stickers on each item were put there, but she offered no explanation. Seeing this, the officers asked Crawford if all the items that were bought in the store were there in the trunk, to which she stated some items were not from Dollar General. The stickers covered the real barcodes so only the $1 barcode would scan, the report said. The group walked out to Crawford’s vehicle, and the officers observed several items that had $1 barcodes with a different item description on the sticker. The officers walked over and asked Crawford if she had a receipt for the items she bought, to which she advised she had it in her car along with the items, the report said. Upon arrival, the officers met the store clerk who stated that 32-year-old Sidney Michelle Crawford was using the restroom. 2, according to an arrest report from the Mascotte Police Department. Police responded to a theft in progress at the Dollar General, located at 441 East Myers Boulevard, on the afternoon of Saturday, Sept. A Groveland woman was arrested for theft after switching barcode stickers at a Dollar General store in Mascotte.
