Walmart Shoplifting Team Nabbed for Garrisonville Caper: Police

GARRISONVILLE, VA — Two Northern Virginia men have been arrested for allegedly shoplifting multiple items from a Walmart, according to the Stafford County Sheriff's Office.

John Charles Dellinger, Sr., 52, of Manassas (pictured), was charged Monday with conspiracy to commit a larceny, concealment of merchandise, providing false identity to law enforcement and identity theft to avoid arrest.

Darrin Eugene Huffman, 45, of Falls Church, was charged Tuesday with concealment of merchandise and conspiring to commit larceny.

Around 8:30 p.m. Monday, police responded to a shoplifting in progress at the Walmart on 217 Garrisonville Road. The store's loss prevention officer already detained Dellinger, who was accused of stealing a coffee maker, a radio and Freon canisters.

Police questioned him about that, as well as the theft of a steam cleaner the previous day. He gave them a bogus social security number, and then, after watching footage from security cameras, police say he admitted to taking all the items.

But the footage also showed another man, Huffman, who, according to police, entered the store with Dellinger and appeared to be fully complicit in the alleged crime. He left the store and drove away in a blue Subaru Outback.

He was arrested the next day in the 3200 block of Aquia Drive in Aquia Harbour.

Photo: Stafford County Sheriff's Office