Repeated daily trips to a Bull Shoals convenience store appearing to purchase items never paid for has led to the arrest of two shoppers from Midway and a store employee from Marion County.
According to the arrest affidavit, while reviewing surveillance tapes for an unrelated matter, the store owner observed two customers repeatedly appearing about the same time day after day. He further noted the co-defendents took a number of assorted items, placed them on the counter where an employee, 41-year-old Gregory Page of Bull Shoals, would bag them. When the bag was given to the co-defendants, they would remove the items without paying for them. The items included cigarettes, beer, wine, lottery tickets and other miscellaneous products.
The co-defendents are identified as 46-year-old Paula Lorene Jennings and 31-year-old Jesse Del Clark.
Jennings allegedly told law enforcement she went to the store on several occasions with Clark since May. While she allegedly admitted they did not pay for the items, she said she believed the items were being charged on an account Clark had established. Through interviews with Page and Clark, it was learned Jennings was aware an account did not exist.
Jennings was booked into the Marion County Detention Center Wednesday evening on a felony theft of property charge, with bond set at $10,000.
Clark was taken into custody by Bull Shoals Police Department officers on October 5 on a warrant out of Baxter County for non payment of child support and transported to the Baxter County Detention Center with his bond set at $21,500. He also faces felony theft of property charges in Marion County Circuit Court.
Bull Shoals Police Department Sergeant James Rhodes says Page was scheduled to surrender to authorities Thursday afternoon.
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