Crime & Safety
Man Caught Pushing Shopping Cart With Stolen TVs: Marple Police
Police said the man went into Walmart and left the store with two TVs he did not pay for. He was found nearby pushing the TVs in a cart.
MARPLE TOWNSHIP, PA — Police in Marple Township arrested a man they said walked out of a store with two televisions without paying for them.
According to police, two officers were called to the Walmart at 400 S. State Road at about 6:47 p.m. Saturday.
Employees told police that a man pushed a shopping cart with two TVs in it out of the store without paying for them.
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They said the man was seen heading across the parking lot.
Police later found the man, identified as 25-year-old Antoine Blackwell from Philadelphia, with the shopping cart and two TVs on South State Road, heading toward Interstate 476.
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According to police, the TVs were valued at $529.
Police charged Blackwell with retail theft.
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