Beef Jerky Thief Arrested in Illinois Dollar Store Snack and Run

by hearit

Snacking while grocery shopping can make the ordeal more bearable, but not if you get arrested for it--and certainly not if you happen upon a package someone else has already snacked on.

A woman in a Chicago suburb is accused of not only the equivalent of a snack-and-run, but actually putting bitten food back on a shelf.

An Illinois woman stands accused of biting multiple packages of beef jerky, then returning them to a store shelf. Police say the 50-year-old refused to pay for the jerky after a Dollar General store manager saw her committing the crime -- not bothering to open the packages, but rather simply biting through the plastic before putting the jerky back on a shelf.

The woman apparently confused the theory that it pays to know a cop. Instead she claimed to be a cop -- during her arrest. That didn't seem to go over too well: bail was set at $1,500. Even at the 10% non-returnable portion of bail, $150 bucks equals a lot of beef jerky.

Police say investigators do not know the motive. Perhaps they're missing the obvious one.

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