A particular Walmart in Chesterfield County, Virginia was flooded with about 50 officers who were engaging in a "shop with a cop" event for children picking out presents. WTVR News reports that during this event, a Walmart employee informed an officer that a shoplifting was in progress.
The suspect had lifted about $1,400 worth of loot before officers converged on him from multiple directions, cutting off any opportunity to escape through overwhelming numbers. Lt. James Lamb of the Chesterfield County Police Department expressed amazement that the suspect chose this time to engage in criminal activity when dozens of marked police vehicles were in the parking lot and uniformed officers could be seen everywhere within the store.
-via Boing Boing
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