Shoplifter Chomps on Beauty Supply Store Worker's Wrist During Getaway: Cops

A Joliet woman attempting to abscond with beauty products from a North Chicago Street store bit down so hard on an employee’s wrist that her teeth made it into the fatty tissue, police said.

Chanel Lewis, 21, of 334 Water St. was charged with aggravated battery and retail theft in connection with the 7 p.m. Saturday incident.

An employee of KOKO Beauty Supply store reportedly spotted Lewis slipping merchandise into her shirt. The worker, a 51-year-old woman, confronted Lewis and stopped her from leaving the store, police said. Lewis then allegedly sank her teeth into the woman’s wrist.

Police called for an ambulance but the bitten woman declined to go to the hospital. Paramedics did bandage her wrist. Police called the wound a “severe bite.”

Lewis was taken to the Will County jail.

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