A York County woman faces felony theft charges after Wyomissing police said she recently teamed up with an accomplice in a no-receipt return fraud scheme at Boscov’s.

Erica L. Schwab, 40, was committed to Berks County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bail following her arraignment Wednesday night before District Judge Brian K. Strand in Reading Central Court.

She is charged with theft by deception, retail theft and receiving stolen property. The retail theft and receiving stolen property counts are graded as felonies. The alleged accomplice hasn’t been charged.

According to court documents:

On July 20, Wyomissing Detective Matthew Cavallo was notified by a Boscov’s loss‑prevention officer about a theft that occurred three days earlier at the store’s Berkshire Mall location.

Surveillance footage showed Schwab and an unidentified man entering the store around 7 p.m. and spending about 45 minutes selecting clothing from various displays. The man handed items to Schwab, who put them in a shopping cart and took them into a fitting room. While she was inside, the man walked laps around the area as if guarding it.

Schwab later left the fitting room with the merchandise stuffed into a bag, leaving the hangers and cart behind.

Police said she went to the customer service counter with the items — valued at more than $400 — claiming she had previously purchased them. The criminal complaint doesn’t specify that the transaction was completed, but that makes no difference under the retail theft statute.

In Pennsylvania, retail theft explicitly includes returning, or attempting to return, unpurchased or store merchandise to obtain refunds, cash or store credit

Schwab and her accomplice left the store at 8 p.m. and got into an SUV that headed west on State Hill Road.

Wyomissing police identified Schwab through the driver’s license number collected by store personnel as required for no-receipt returns. Schwab had supplied another woman’s name and listed a hotel as the address, but driver’s license number and store surveillance footage were enough to identify her, investigators said.