Alleged Shoplifter’s Lesson: Don’t Publicize Crime Spree Plans on Facebook

A 22-year-old Toledo, Ohio woman may as well have placed the figurative neon sign reading “arrest me” on her forehead.

Instead, she allegedly posted on Facebook that she planned to rip off a Walmart store and spent Christmas in jail, the Macomb Daily reports.

Iesha Saunders reportedly posted she was “bout to get this money” with some female friends, and then drove more than 75 miles with her crew to shoplift more than $1,200 worth of merchandise from the Walmart on Hall Road near Romeo Plank Road with her pals.

The loss prevention staff at the store reportedly grew suspicious as they watched Saunders and three others – Sharonda Tuggle and Jabalena Thompson, both 22, and Keietta Latrice Stewart, who will turn 24 next week – allgedly gathering between $1,200 and $1,700 worth of merchandise.

“They picked the wrong place to steal from,” Clinton Township Detective Capt. Richard Maierle said. “The loss prevention personnel at that Walmart are really on top of their game.”

The four women were arraigned Monday in 41B District Court on charges of first-degree retail fraud and conspiracy to commit retail fraud, both felonies. Bond was set at $25,000 and all four women spent Christmas in the Macomb County Jail.

Police aren’t sure why the four women drove from Ohio to suburban Detroit to pull off the heist.