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Some idiots try to profit off their babies by attempting to sell them outside of Walmart. And now there’s the woman in Syracuse who stands accused of using her baby to ward off Walmart loss prevention officers while she and her two alleged accomplices made off with their purloined loot.
According to police, three women between the ages of 25 and 29 were attempting to exit a Walmart in New Hartford, NY, on Wednesday with around $1,100 in stolen goods when they were approached by loss prevention officers.
That’s when one of the women, a 28-year-old mother, decided to give her newborn baby girl an early introduction to a life of crime.
Writes the Post-Standard:
[She] repeatedly swung the baby carrier containing her three-week-old daughter at the loss prevention officer to prevent being taken into custody and used the carrier to repeatedly push the officer to keep him away from her, police said.
[A second woman] then sprayed the pepper spray on the Wal-Mart loss prevention officer and on bystanders before all three escaped into [the third suspect's] car and drove away, police said.
Unfortunately for them (and fortunately for the rest of us), their “Thelma & Louise (and friend and baby)”-like getaway didn’t last long. The three suspects were later stopped by police on the NY State Thruway and taken into custody. Authorities say the baby was unharmed and given over to the care of a relative.
All three women were charged with criminal possession of stolen property and grand larceny, both felonies, and criminal possession of an anti-security item, a misdemeanor.
The baby-swinging mother was charged endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor.
Syracuse woman swings baby carrier with child in it to try to avoid theft arrest [Syracuse.com]
Thanks to Ron for the tip!
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Good thing they didn’t do this at Forever XXI, or that baby might have been placed into a headlock.
You win an internet!
The poor baby would then sit in jail for a week after being unable to post bail on shoplifting charges.
(Think it didn’t happen? Google that shit, I lost faith in the human race when I found out that the guard wasn’t charged with a damn thing)
A misdemeanor? That seems rather lame. Using a baby as a pudgy mace?
I think perhaps the “anti-security item” was actually the pepper spray, not the baby. I wouldn’t bet my mortgage payment on that, however.
I was confused by that. How is pepper spray “anti-security?” Isn’t is pro-security?
No, I think that referred to another device to unlock security that’s on merch.
I believe this is a felony not a misdemeanor…. due to the cost of the items, attacking the loss prevention agent and then pepper spray.
Then tack on swinging the crumb cruncher which is felony endangerment
Almost every time I go to Walmart I always see someone getting arrested. Still shop there because it’s the only thing open 24hrs
..at least the baby was in a carrier and not being swung from the arms? Really, that’s what I thought had happened before I read the post, and I imagined that the mother was swinging her baby, Olympic hammer throw style.
Wow. Where is this Walmart? I’ve been going to Walmarts for years and have never seen anyone arrested at one.
Greenfield Wisconsin on 108th and layton, it’s the Nascar Walmart of the Milwaukee area
The Wal Mart on Capitol Dr near Shorewood, WI is as ghetto as they come. The cops might as well have a station inside. Would save them the time to drive down there.
Haha, I’m on training in Milwaukee for the next few months, I have to check this out!
I saw a guy die in a K-Mart from a heart attack. The rescue squad tried CPR on him to no avail. I think about it every time I shop there.
Please refrain from any Blue-Light-Special jokes. Does KM even do BLS anymore?
Mansfield, OH. At least once a day cops are there to arrest someone for shoplifting,
Plus all the free entertainment!
Ahh the good old Mohawk Valley……
By the way this was in New Hartford NY almost 40+ min away from Syracuse near Utica, NY.
Let’s be honest. Nobody really knows about anything outside of NYC, and when you’re talking upstate, you relate the story to the closest of one of the 3 “large” cities. Sorry, nobody cares about Utica.
Touche. Unnecessary.
Neither do I
So which upstate city isn’t considered large? Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, or Albany? (of which, I believe, are listed in order from greatest to least greatest in population)
Actually, it was Oneida. There is no Walmart in New Hartford.
I thought the Walmart up on Rte. 5 was considered New Hartford? It’s right up the street, probably 1/2 a mile away from Sangertown Mall, which is considered New Hartford.
Wal-Mart, 4765 Commercial Dr, New Hartford
Isn’t Colgate in New Hartford? That school isn’t anywhere near the Walmart.
Nope no Colgate near there.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Walmart&gl=us&hl=en&cd=1&ei=mVSJTK7eG5CeygT45YSUDA&sll=43.094543,-75.309412&sspn=0.005782,0.013937&ie=UTF8&view=map&cid=35654544519766997&ved=0CHsQpQY&hq=Walmart&hnear=&t=h&z=16
Colgate is in Hamilton, which is nowhere near either Walmart. My alma mater, Hamilton College, is a 10-minute drive from New Hartford.
Oh, that’s right. I’m confusing Oneida and New Hartford.
Ughhhhhhhh. I meant to say “Oh, that’s right. I’m confusing Hamilton and New Hartford. “
LOL… When I read New Hartford Walmart, I laughed. I live 30 mins away from this crime scene.
Makes me miss Upstate NY.
Come back then, we miss our only fan.
I’m sure if you could guarantee less than 200 inches of snow a season, we’d all be back in a heartbeat
But that’s all the fun! Don’t you like fun?
..at least the baby was in a carrier and not being swung from the arms? Really, that’s what I thought had happened before I read the post, and I imagined that the mother was swinging her baby, Olympic hammer throw style.
Thank you for the awesome visual. Like something out of 300…. Swinging a baby around like a mace Yelling “THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!”.
Thanks for making me laugh out loud at work. I totally blew my “pretending to be working industriously” cover.
You know, I pictured that too
And if those carriers are designed to protect infants during car crashes, a little collision with a loss-prevention officer is nothing
Same. It was slightly horrifying at first, but now that I realize that’s not what happened, it’s a bit amusing.
‘criminal possession of an anti-security item’?
Really, why don’t they just call it ‘Annoying the Police’. They can consolidate ‘criminal possession of an anti-security item’, ‘Resisting Arrest’ and a whole slew of other crimes into that one. Just think of all the paperwork it will save!
I suspect they are referring to the pepper spray and since the Walmart security officer is not a police officer, they used another charge.
Actually, that charge is usually for something like a tinfoil-lined bag or box cutter to remove security tags.
Ah, but by endangering the WalMart security personnel, she was annoying the police.
It’s one of those ‘catch-all’ charges. They could use it to replace a lot of things, really. Drunk and disorderly, disorderly conduct, inciting violence…y’know, all those things police use to mean ‘you made me angry, now I’m arresting you’.
Babies can be pretty dangerous weapons. it can really hurt if someone hits you with one. Imagine someone going around like the scout from the game team fortress 2 but instead of swinging a bat, they are swinging a baby. It may hurt just as much.
I think the most suprising part was:
“The baby-swinging mother was charged endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor.”
It’s only a misdemeanor? Steal a TV – go to Jail. Put your child in harms way – slap ont he writs.
Good thing the lady didn’t have a joint on her, that would’ve been felony possession for sure.
Why does this not surprise me at all. Oh, its because I live here and can vouch that upstate is full of crazy people.
BACK OFF!! I’M NOT CRAZY!! SCREW YOU!!
I’m beginning to really like the things you say…
A better tactic would have been to throw the dirty diaper at the LPO’s. Of course, that could have been considered biological warfare…
It is amazing at how many trashy people change their baby’s diaper in the parking lots of stores and then leave the nasty smelly diaper on the ground. I have seen it many times at Wal-Mart, J. C. Penney’s and Big Lots. Often times there is a large waste can 25 feet from their exploits. JCP actually has two at the outside front door. Also most larger stores have diaper changing tables in the restroom. Why do the dirty in a parking lot?
I recently saw a trasher changing her baby in a shopping cart. I wonder who got that cart next for all their shopping items?
Somewhat off topic — but I did my bi-annual Walmart trip today. (The nearest is 15 miles away, so I don’t go often) The receipt checker was a polite young man with a noticeable learning impairment. All the way home I wondered if someone from this website would dare to walk past this kid, and be ok with it.
Walmart probably gets state funds to employ him, so yeah I’d have no problem convincing him to quit and seek honest work counting cards in a casino.
So you’re saying it would not be okay to choose against submitting to a search by a private citizen at the employ of a corporation just because that private citizen happens to have a learning disability? You think that they get special rights to impose on others? Seems like you have a determined position (Pro-Receipt Checkers) and you’re using that as an attempt to muddy the waters of the debate. Weak tactics.
I thought it was more common to use kids as a shrieking device to ward off single folk.
These people are the dredges if our society and guess who is paying for these women’s rent and groceries bills? I guess they just wanted the finer things in life and you can get it at the local Wal-Mart!
They should all be sterilized and never let out of prison honestly using a child as a battering ram is unforgivable! These wanna be menace to society types deserve nothing less then our complete and utter contempt, sorry but animals like these truly make my blood boil!
Tat
I totally agree!
It turns out that the baby carrier had a +1 bonus against security officers
What is that picture “shopping with baby” from? Is that real?
It’s a hilarious book by David and Kelly Sopp called Safe Baby Handling Tips. My friend got given it as a gift for her baby shower.
Here’s more of the do’s and don’ts: http://www.c00lstuff.com/1133/Do_s_and_don_ts_with_babies/
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
It’s some sort of book; I remember reading it a long time ago.
“People that annoy you.”
racists?
“The baby…was turned over to a relative, police said”
Ok it always worries me when I see something like this at the end of a story.
Is the whole rest of the family just automatically fit to take care of the kid? It could be that they gave the baby to the same effed-up relative that raised/effed-up the suspect in the first place.
I frequent that Walmart all the time; that’s the classy one in the area, I can’t believe there’s baby swingin’ going on there.
At least they didn’t forget their baby like that other group… http://consumerist.com/2010/08/shoplifter-forgets-baby.html
Take that baby away from that whore psycho mom forever. That bitch could use her new baby as a weapon? SICK nasty whore
What about assaulting the bystanders? No charges there??
Exactly, I was going to ask the same question. How can you just hit people up with pepper spray and not be charged with assault when it’s not in self-defense?
i’m speechless and disgusted
Honestly, this makes my heart bleed! I am so sad right now.
New Hartford, NY is a suburb of Utica, not Syracuse.
#correction
“Stupefy!”
loss prevention “officer” – huh? Last I heard, they were not deputized nor sworn in as “officers” of anything.