Walmart "OG" Thief with 17-Year History Caught After Breaking Her Trespass Order!

Added: 2026-05-23

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[00:00:02]And all the stuff she didn't pay for at self checkout.

[00:00:13]All right, come on. Give him the stuff.

[00:00:16]I forgot to mention that she's not supposed to be here. Actually, already been trespassed.

[00:00:22]Find me that trespass and she'll go to jail. Come on.

[00:00:26]Off the property, please.

[00:00:31]Oh, I'm sorry.

[00:00:33]You have the car.

[00:00:34]I'll take that stuff out. Okay.

[00:00:37]I have looked at a lot of shoplifting cases, but this one out of Hot Springs, Arkansas on August 9th, 2025 hits different. A woman walks into a Walmart for bell peppers and peaches.

[00:00:50]She has steaks tucked in her clothes and a trespass order she chose to ignore.

[00:00:55]I'll get you that receipt now. Okay.

[00:01:02]Let me check her receipt. I'm not sure about what's in here.

[00:01:10]Y'all going to get rid of all of this?

[00:01:11]Mhm. And it was in her Uh, so we Where's her receipt, ma'am?

[00:01:36]I'm not sure.

[00:01:46]But she wrote in this app three times.

[00:01:56]Oh, well.

[00:01:58]There's two bell pepper on here.

[00:02:07]No, I didn't.

[00:02:08]I did pay for it.

[00:02:10]No, you did not. You paid for a bell pepper three times.

[00:02:16]I got the salads.

[00:02:31]Give me your driver's license. I don't.

[00:02:33]I don't.

[00:02:42]All right, I'll get Okay, thank you. You can sit in there. No.

[00:02:46]No, I got my niece to get my purse for No, who's in charge here? Here's some of them from our store. I mean, I can print out all of them if you need it, but All right, just 24 Yeah, but it's been in in Just hold that, put it with the paperwork.

[00:03:24]I need to make a copy of this.

[00:03:30]What's my charge?

[00:03:32]Working an accident.

[00:03:35]I need to make a copy.

[00:03:39]Are you able to come into the office?

[00:03:41]192 You can you swing around in there?

[00:03:48]No, I can't enter in your traffic. You won't be able to drive it. Okay, thank you. Have a good day.

[00:03:59]Yeah, I'm not able to let you take your car.

[00:04:04]So, you have been trespassed from Walmart before in 23 several other Walmarts apparently. Um you're going to be charged with a felony this time and you're going to go to jail today. You are under arrest. Okay. All right.

[00:04:20]How could you do with that car?

[00:04:22]It's right here on the dash.

[00:04:25]You can't get it out.

[00:04:28]So, I'm going to go until he comes to my purse. Uh that's going to go with you to the jail. Is she here in the parking lot? Yeah, I don't care where you phone at. My phone is I don't have my phone.

[00:04:40]Call her. I'm not calling anybody. Could you let her know to leave?

[00:04:44]That's going She She'll figure it out.

[00:04:46]Where Where is she parked at? I don't know. Okay. Oh my What's the matter with you today? short We'll take it back return it because I can't >> I need a I need a total for everything that you took.

[00:04:58]>> Yeah, I'll give this but the food are you going to keep it? Return it so I can so I can't >> She's asking for you to return it.

[00:05:06]That's what happened. Okay, then I need your EBT card with your okay, PIN number wrote down. Okay.

[00:05:12]Because I have to have that to go back to her. Okay.

[00:05:16]What should have been a misdemeanor citation is about to become a felony arrest. So, how does buying groceries carry the same charge as breaking into a building? Under Arkansas Code Annotated Section 5-39-201 subsection B, commercial burglary requires two elements.

[00:05:35]One, entering or remaining unlawfully in a commercial structure.

[00:05:39]Two, the purpose of committing any offense punishable by imprisonment.

[00:05:43][music] No broken window needed. No picked lock, just unauthorized entry plus criminal intent. A trespass order covers element one.

[00:05:54]Concealed merchandise covers element two.

[00:05:57]Both confirmed on this body cam.

[00:06:00]But here is where I push back.

[00:06:01]This statute was written for people breaking into closed businesses after hours.

[00:06:06]Using it on a woman who walked through an open front door during store hours, that is a policy choice worth questioning. The trespass order is doing all the heavy lifting.

[00:06:17]Arkansas Code Annotated Section 5 39 203 subsection A says, "A person commits criminal trespass by purposely entering premises owned by another person without authorization."

[00:06:30]Ms. Mauer had been trespassed from this Walmart and several others. Her presence became unlawful the moment she crossed the threshold.

[00:06:39]But from a defense perspective, the word purposely matters.

[00:06:43]If she can argue she was never properly served with written notice or did not understand the order applied to this specific location, element one has a crack in it.

[00:06:53]Slim chance given her history, but that is where a defense attorney starts. Now for intent.

[00:06:59]Arkansas Code Annotated Section 5 36 116, the shoplifting presumption statute, states that knowingly concealing unpurchased merchandise on your person creates a legal presumption of intent to steal.

[00:07:14]That gave loss prevention the authority to detain her and gave the officer probable cause. The concealed steaks lock in the purpose element because theft under Arkansas Code Annotated Section 5 36 103 is punishable by imprisonment.

[00:07:29]But presumption is not conviction.

[00:07:32]If she argues she had not reached the register yet, that presumption is rebuttable.

[00:07:37]Weak argument with steaks in your waistband, but legally it exists. Here is where the case gets heavy.

[00:07:44]Theft convictions going back to 2009, 15 years of documented offenses, multiple trespass orders from multiple Walmarts.

[00:07:53]Under Arkansas Code Annotated Section 5-4-401, a Class C felony means 3 to 10 years.

[00:08:02]Fines up to $10,000 under Section 5-4-201.

[00:08:06]But, the real danger is Arkansas Code Annotated Section 5-4-501, the habitual offender enhancement. That could push the ceiling from 10 to 20 years.

[00:08:18]A prosecutor looking at 15 years of priors does not need much convincing to file that enhancement.

[00:08:25]This is not a shoplifting case anymore.

[00:08:27]This is a career criminal file. The officer did something most officers skip. Within 30 seconds of arriving, he asked about trespass history before he even touched the receipt.

[00:08:38]That single question changed this from a misdemeanor to a felony.

[00:08:43]He confirmed prior orders through dispatch, applied the correct statute, and made the arrest without raising his voice or using force. When Ms. Mauer struggled to stand, he adjusted.

[00:08:54]No escalation.

[00:08:56]Textbook work.

[00:08:57]My one critique, she asked to call her niece waiting in the parking lot.

[00:09:01]He said, "No."

[00:09:03]He had no legal duty to make that call.

[00:09:06]But, a 30-second phone call costs nothing and keeps a family member from sitting in a lot wondering what happened.

[00:09:12]The law did not require it. Good judgment would have.

[00:09:19]That's an old receipt.

[00:09:22]It's for help program.

[00:09:25]Well, I Ask her where her EBT card is at. Where is your EBT card at?

[00:09:29]Um, it's on the side.

[00:09:38]That is.

[00:09:39]Sir, I have two of them. What?

[00:09:43]So, she got two.

[00:09:45]Oh, this one says Timothy.

[00:09:49]125 This one says No, I didn't.

[00:09:58]Would you Would you watch her for me, please?

[00:10:32]Is she searching on there?

[00:10:34]What? Yeah, she's searching.

[00:10:35]She is.

[00:10:37]Deep down I don't care.

[00:10:39]It's bad, man. She stinks. [music] I said you let her turn around.

[00:10:44]No, made me no difference, so I don't care.

[00:10:49]We'll do the report later.

[00:10:52]Easy enough to do.

[00:10:55]Y'all want it, y'all can have it.

[00:10:59]I got to hear it.

[00:11:34]I think it's this Yeah.

[00:11:51]Young.

[00:11:52]You want me to You want to trade 24? I will. Yep.

[00:11:57]It's right to get it.

[00:12:04]I will.

[00:12:07]Okay, I'll trade you 24.

[00:12:10]No, you the best.

[00:12:15]Mhm. You smell like poop.

[00:12:20]Oh my god, sir.

[00:12:31]Lower that mercy.

[00:12:33][ __ ] why you don't give me some of that money you got, man? I ain't got no money, partner.

[00:12:36]>> You got it now. You got it all, man.

[00:12:39]I'm just trying to get like you.

[00:12:41]>> [laughter] >> I promise you you'll be a little bit better off than me.

[00:12:45]Trying to get like you.

[00:12:51]Now you going to bed. You ain't going to be calling nobody.

[00:12:55]You ain't calling anybody.

[00:12:57]You going to bed.

[00:13:01]So I know you already know to try to get Sound like a Sound like a black man.

[00:13:10]I'm all right.

[00:13:14]Maybe you want to try to break that.

[00:13:15]Flip that back. So when you flip it, just push down on there. No, no, man.

[00:13:21]You trying to break Oh, that's too expensive for me.

[00:13:24]I ain't got no good money.

[00:13:26]I wish had Davon Smith money.

[00:13:33]What money you got?

[00:13:35]Mhm? Is that who's money you got?

[00:13:37]I'm just saying I got my money.

[00:13:39]Well, I feel like It'll take a year or couple weeks.

[00:13:43]They wouldn't even count enough money when they won that lottery the other day. Ain't nobody won it. They had two drawings, two back to back, didn't they?

[00:13:49]Oh, for real?

[00:13:50]Yeah.

[00:13:52]No, for real? A hundred and some million? It was 1.7 billion or something.

[00:13:57]>> There was one in Missouri and there was one that a college kid in a fraternity at Texas University won.

[00:14:03]So, they're splitting the 1.8 in half. I think I would have. I'd quit always. Oh, yeah.

[00:14:11]I I can find a few days, man.

[00:14:14]I wouldn't I wouldn't be working for nobody else. No.

[00:14:17]>> [snorts] >> Immediate, uh two weeks.

[00:14:21]Yeah. But, you got benefits.

[00:14:23]That check hits the account, I'm gone.

[00:14:25]>> [snorts] >> Good luck to everybody else. This is yours.

[00:14:30]Thanks.

[00:14:36]I'm about to hop springs in the notes.

[00:14:39]Oh.

[00:14:43]All right. Yeah, I got to go. I got to go to a meeting.

[00:14:48]Hey, tomorrow is Dennis's 30-year anniversary. You've been here 30 years?

[00:14:54]Come on.

[00:14:57]When you going to retire? I don't know, man. When I can afford it.

[00:15:02]Jeez.

[00:15:14]Did she hear?

[00:15:16]She got to get out in the parking lot.

[00:15:18]Wait on me.

[00:15:19]She know you were going to work still?

[00:15:20]She thought she going to get those steaks.

[00:15:23]What and nobody get them steaks. Uh-huh.

[00:15:25]Have you had to put any of pursuits on them cars like the state police do? Not yet. Well, they they put it on them, don't they? They apply it.

[00:15:33]>> Hey.

[00:15:34]All right.

[00:15:35]I'm good.

[00:15:36]>> [laughter] >> That's all. I don't even know why they're running in the first place, but yeah. I don't either. All right. You too, man. Have a good day.

[00:15:44]All right. Goodbye now.

[00:15:48]Goodbye now.

[00:15:52]She got to pulling out them steaks. I said, "Oh, no. Not not you boys."

[00:15:56]I get up there and said, "Oh god, y'all aren't putting those back on the shelf."

[00:16:00]I said, "No."

[00:16:01]Uh Well, I got to Got to twang too.

[00:16:07]Something wrong with it. That'd be bad.

[00:16:09]Oh lord.

[00:16:16]Change your seats with me.

[00:16:18]Whatever you Whatever you want. It's all This one's got the time on it. You definitely don't I'll have to key everyone in in by hand if All right. I just want to say thank you for transporting for me. Yes. You're welcome. You're You're amazing. Who say that? I heard that, you know, they're stuffing it. So, I I checked in right I mean, I figured y'all had it handled. I heard Bricky say something about You need to stay tuned. I said, "Sir, he's hiding stuff in her clothes." I said, When did you start talking on the radio?

[00:16:45]You know you watch the video. You make way. Sorry. I'm sorry.

[00:16:50]You were blessed.

[00:16:52]Appreciate it.

[00:16:54]So, only one given a court date is Marlon?

[00:16:58]I I think so. Okay. Hot Springs.

[00:17:01]Yeah.

[00:17:01]>> Yeah. And I think she was 53 out of us, too. Was she? I think so.

[00:17:08]I have to check.

[00:17:10]It's going to be commercial burglary. Mm.

[00:17:14]And she's been She has a history of uh theft.

[00:17:18]A conviction of theft.

[00:17:20]All the way back I think to 2009.

[00:17:24]Well, that sucks.

[00:17:25]>> She ain't She ain't new to the game. She true to the game.

[00:17:28]Real OG right here.

[00:17:31]I heard that.

[00:17:42]Baby, you need to speak with law enforcement. Huh?

[00:17:45]You need to speak with law enforcement.

[00:17:48]I need one of them.

[00:17:49]>> I'm about to say.

[00:17:50]When they give them out?

[00:17:51]>> I I you know I didn't know you could buy EBT with an EBT card. You buy anything almost. Food stamps Food stamps You can use food stamps You can buy anything. You can use food stamps to get cash back like so much cash out of them. Yeah.

[00:18:03]No, we don't do that. I'm telling you. I didn't need the I didn't need the the EBT for the food.

[00:18:09]If If I cut my food expense and grocery expense and and man All day. You talking about You talking about money. I got a new phone next week. I have three phones. Foldables.

[00:18:20]I know. I have one too.

[00:18:20]>> Juggling them.

[00:18:21]No, I need that new phone. I got you.

[00:18:23]Here you go, boo.

[00:18:27]Well, she getting She getting a hell of a step time today. Yeah, she is. I said Porsha ain't playing around.

[00:18:35]She must got She must got a trip or something coming up.

[00:18:38]Vacation or something.

[00:18:39]Got to be.

[00:18:44]We just waiting sister daughter brother or either cousin sister or niece. There we go.

[00:19:02]You actually working today?

[00:19:07]Okay. No, I appreciate it.

[00:19:12]Right, I don't have your number.

[00:19:15]don't I'm going to pull my collar up here.

[00:19:18]I would.

[00:19:21]Make her walk. Paul Snow said she got legs. Make her walk. Did you see the trauma I just went through to get her to get up?

[00:19:26]>> Make her walk. She walked from that car into there. She got up and bumped me into this door and said, "Oh, I'm sorry."

[00:19:35]Did she? I said, "Girl."

[00:19:39]I don't need it.

[00:19:44]It's up to you, man. Go grab it. I'm just messing with you. Baby. I'm just I'm just here for support. I don't know what I'm going to say. That's That's what I want.

[00:19:55]It ain't It ain't That needs That needs uh soap.

[00:19:59]You got hot water?

[00:20:00]Borax.

[00:20:02]She said borax.

[00:20:06]That ain't going to be enough.

[00:20:08]Pull them steaks out of there.

[00:20:10]You put them steaks back on the shelf, man.

[00:20:12]I thought Arby's had the meats.

[00:20:14]Got them steaks from Put them on the magnet.

[00:20:20]>> [snorts] >> That's one of you. That meat bad, boy.

[00:20:34]Oh, good gracious.

[00:20:38]Hello.

[00:20:53]You got to wait sometimes, but they do provide.

[00:20:57]Finish.

[00:21:02]You ever had this place here?

[00:21:04]Yes. Is it good? It's good. It's a little pricey, but food's good.

[00:21:11]All right.

[00:21:12]You ready to roll?

[00:21:27]Just imagine me being bumped into the door after this.

[00:21:53]Give us Give us a second.

[00:22:08]135 here stop.

[00:22:13]Copy, Clay.

[00:22:30]>> [snorts] >> Pushing?

[00:22:39]You good without a seat belt?

[00:22:46]Ms. Mauer did not resist.

[00:22:49]She did not run.

[00:22:50]She did not argue.

[00:22:52]That cooperation prevented additional charges and kept this encounter completely non-violent.

[00:22:58]I give her credit for that.

[00:22:59]But she walked into a store she was banned from, hid merchandise in her clothes, and carried a record going back more than a decade.

[00:23:06]The system gave her chance after chance.

[00:23:09]She drove past every off-ramp. Lesson one, a trespass order is not a warning you can ignore.

[00:23:16]It is a legal tripwire.

[00:23:18]In Arkansas and most states, walking into a property you have been banned from while intending to commit any crime upgrades the charge to burglary.

[00:23:27]A felony.

[00:23:28]No breaking required.

[00:23:30]Step through that door again and you are stepping into a felony.

[00:23:34]Lesson two, your record walks into the room before you do.

[00:23:38]A first-time offender in this exact situation probably gets a misdemeanor and goes home.

[00:23:43]Ms. Mauer got a felony because the system saw 15 years of prior convictions.

[00:23:49]If you have a history, the margin for error is gone. Lesson three, cooperation is not weakness.

[00:23:56]It is strategy.

[00:23:58]You have zero constitutional protections in a parking lot.

[00:24:01]You have all of them in a courtroom.

[00:24:03]Fight at the scene and you add resisting arrest and whatever injuries come with it.

[00:24:08]Cooperate and you live to argue your case in front of a judge. If you know a case that deserves this kind of analysis, drop it in the comments.

[00:24:16]A trespass order does not fade with time.

[00:24:20]And as this case proves, ignoring one can cost you a lot more than the price of a steak.

[00:24:25]Thanks for watching.