A 40-year-old Luzerne County woman stole nearly $700 of merchandise from Dick\u2019s House of Sport in Scranton on Saturday, police said.<\/p>\n
Sameerah Woods \u2014 who police discovered had two prior retail theft convictions \u2014 placed eight clothing products in a bag and walked out of the store at 440 Viewmont Drive without paying, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
When Patrolman Ryan Seprish responded to the store inside the Viewmont Mall Monday around 7:12 p.m., Kenneth Mascaro, the loss prevention officer for Dick\u2019s, stated he was investigating a retail theft totaling $687.99 that occurred on Saturday, in which the female suspect was wearing a black T-shirt, gray shorts, and a black hat, police said.<\/p>\n
One of Mascaro\u2019s co-workers identified Woods as the suspect after viewing footage of the incident, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Additionally,\u00a0Seprish observed a photo from one of Woods\u2019 social media accounts where she was wearing the same clothing and jewelry as shown on the video surveillance from the theft incident, police said.<\/p>\n
Seprish also noted Woods could been seen carrying clothing in her hands inside the store on the surveillance video before being spotted with the clothing in a bag outside the mall, the officer wrote in the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Police charged Woods, 408 Mark Drive, Hanover Twp., with retail theft. Woods was released on $10,000 unsecured bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 21 at 10:15 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 40-year-old Luzerne County woman stole nearly $700 of merchandise from Dick\u2019s House of Sport in Scranton on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,2121,201,182,803,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-282320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-hanover-township","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282320","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=282320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}