A woman accused of pushing two fully loaded carts allegedly containing mostly unbagged and unpaid for merchandise out of the Mountain Home Walmart store in early October last year appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court on February 10.
Twenty-eight-year-old Emily Marie Uselton, who lists an address in Bull Shoals on court documents, pled guilty to the charges against her and was sentenced to 12 months-probation and ordered to pay almost $1800 in restitution.
She was arrested after Mountain Home police officers responded to Walmart on a suspected shoplifter call.
Asset protection staff at the store reported following Uselton around for more than an hour and observed that she did not pay for a large number of the items she put in her carts.
When police arrived, Uselton was in the Walmart parking lot looking for her vehicle.
When an officer asked her name, Uselton was reported not to have replied verbally but did “flash her Arkansas ID card.”
Uselton also showed the officer a receipt that listed only about 10 items but was alleged not to have accounted for the majority of the merchandise in the two carts.
Many of the unbagged items had been put into the carts in what was described as a “disorganized fashion.” Uselton said she “did not believe in plastic bags” but according to the probable cause affidavit, there were five or six items in the carts that were in bags.
During the time the officer went through the process of identifying Uselton and asking her to provide any receipts she might have to account for the merchandise in the carts, she became increasingly argumentative and began creating a disturbance.
While the officer was holding her Arkansas I.D. card, Uselton was reported to have grabbed at it. She began cursing and professing she could not be arrested.
When told she was under arrest, she is reported to have attempted to pull away from the officer as he tried to get hand restraints on her.
After she was initially taken to one MHPD patrol car, she refused to put her feet inside so the door could be closed. Because of her actions, she was taken to another police car that had a “full cage” that serves to protect officers from unruly prisoners in the back seat during transport.
Uselton had to be pulled into the second vehicle from the opposite side.
Uselton continued her disruptive ways after arriving at the Baxter County Detention Center and was uncooperative with jail staff as they went through the booking process.
She is charged with theft of property and disorderly conduct.
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