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(USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect) \u2013 A New York woman said she wasn\u2019t thinking right when an Erie County judge on May 29 asked her why she targeted Bath & Body Works stores in a 2024 theft spree authorities said went on for nine months.<\/p>\n
Her accomplice told Judge David Ridge he was in a weird state of mind and was on drugs.<\/p>\n
The crime spree Emonee Q. Bradley and Jovante M. Richardson admitted to through guilty pleas entered in March earned the pair on May 29 jail sentences, periods of probation and a $13,211 bill to make good on what was stolen from Bath & Body Works locations in the Millcreek Mall in Millcreek Township and elsewhere in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
Ridge pointed out to both in handing down the sentences that, even though Bath & Body Works is a large company, the thefts were no different than stealing more than $13,000 from a person on the street.<\/p>\n
Ridge sentenced Bradley and Richardson to six to 23 months in prison on their guilty pleas to a third-degree felony count of organized retail theft, and to three years of probation consecutive to the prison terms on their guilty pleas to a third-degree felony count of retail theft.<\/p>\n
Ridge told Bradley, 26, of Cheektowaga, New York, that he would consider having her placed on electronic monitoring after three months in jail, noting her lack of a prior criminal record. He told Richardson, 32, of Buffalo, that he would consider having him placed on electronic monitoring after serving five months in jail, noting Richardson\u2019s prior criminal record.<\/p>\n
Ridge additionally ordered the two to pay the $13,211 in restitution, and he barred them from all Bath & Body Works stores.<\/p>\n
The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General initially charged Bradley and Richardson in May 2025, accusing them of stealing from Bath & Body Works stores in Millcreek Township, Grove City, Pittsburgh and Cranberry Township in Venango County, Pennsylvania, on July 29. Investigators wrote in the initial criminal complaints that nearly $3,800 in merchandise was stolen from those four stores.<\/p>\n
According to information in the complaints, Millcreek police initially investigated the theft at the mall, where a little more than $1,000 in merchandise was taken, and learned that thefts happened at the other Bath & Body Works stores on July 29. Police obtained video of the suspects and photos of a vehicle possibly linked to them, and through video and other information identified Bradley and Richardson as the suspects.<\/p>\n
The case against Bradley and Richardson expanded after the initial charges were filed, according to the Office of Attorney General.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article (USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect) \u2013 A New York woman said she wasn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-207569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}