Shopping trip ends with shoplifting charges for Lee County women
TUPELO, Miss. (WCBI) – A shopping trip to Tupelo ended with a visit to jail for two Lee County women.
Tuesday, Tupelo police were called to a business in the Barnes Crossing area about a substantial shoplifting case.
When they got to the business, they were told that two women had taken more than $1,000 worth of merchandise.
Officers arrested Marie Thomas of Mooreville and Brandy Allred from Nettleton at the scene.
Thomas was charged with felony shoplifting. Her bond has been set at $5,000.
Allred was also identified as a suspect in two grand larceny cases involving a business on South Green Street in Tupelo back in February.
She was charged with felony shoplifting and two counts of grand larceny.
Her bond has been set at $50,000.
