Now, everyone knows that the big discount retailers like Walmart are a great place to go if you want to buy things at a decent price. Sure, you might not be able to buy the best quality merchandise, but you can buy merchandise.
Most folks also realize that it’s much easier to spend someone else’s money than it is to spend their own. As anyone involved in procurement for a business can tell you, it’s less about what kinds of deals are out there than the particular partnerships and purchasing agreements that the company might have.
When it comes to criminals, however, you’d think that they might just spend other folks’ money sort of haphazardly. Especially when they are involved in something so nefarious and intricate as identity theft. This is not the case, however, with a couple from Pasco who recently were caught trying to buy items with a stolen credit card at the Kennewick Walmart.
The two individuals are Robert Lee Henry Jr., and Aimee Elizabeth Patterson. After an investigation that took a month, the couple were arrested.
That investigation began after the pair used a stolen credit card at that Wal-Mart. When Henry walked out of the store, the security officers asked to see Henry’s identification. He ran away from the officers.
Meanwhile, Patterson had taken off back into the store, and then left through another door. The pair drove off together. The whole thing was caught on security cameras, and it’s likely that part of the case against the duo will be based on that Walmart encounter.
When police finally tracked the pair down at home, they found Patterson. They searched the house, and they found Henry hiding in the home inside of a closet.
There’s no word as to whether the home was a mobile home, but we suspect that little detail would fit well into this story, whether it was the case or not.
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