EDMOND Okl. Nov. 25 2007 — A Skiatook woman was arrested in Edmond on a complaint of stealing merchandise from Kohl's Department Store 2201 W Danforth Road.
Elsie Lorene Caldwell, 33, was booked into the Oklahoma County jail on a shoplifting complaint.A security officer at the store told police he watched a woman take price and security tags off several leather jackets and put the garments in her shopping cart, according to an Edmond police report released this week.The woman then went to the women's and home sections of the store, where additional merchandise was put into the same shopping cart, the report shows.The woman was stopped by the security officer once she left the store.The stolen merchandise was estimated at more than $4,200 and included six leather coats, eight pairs of jeans, and a $300 comforter.The woman apologized and asked not to be taken to jail. She told police she was displaced from Louisiana and was only trying to provide Christmas for her children, the report states.Glynda Chu, spokeswoman for Edmond police, said she doesn't know whether the woman arrested is in fact from Louisiana.Caldwell is scheduled to be sentenced this week in Tulsa County after she pleaded guilty to felony charges of uttering a forged instrument, larceny of merchandise from a retailer and bringing contraband into the jail, court records show.
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