A Florida woman who was caught shoplifting at a North Miami Beach Walmart by using counterfeit cash tried to eat the bills to evade police, Fox 35 Orlando reports. Zipporah Abraham, 38, attempted to pay for more than $800 worth of stuff with fake money, but she was intercepted by the Miami-Dade Police Department before she got very far.
Walmart staff knew the cash was counterfeit early on.
It was obvious the money wasn’t real and wouldn’t be accepted. That’s when a loss prevention officer was alerted to what was going on, and surveillance footage showed Zipporah Abraham putting items inside a plastic storage bin and pacing back and forth before making a run for it with the stuff she failed to pay for.
However, a member of store security stopped her on her way out the door. In total the items she tried to steal added up to $864.77.
Zipporah Abraham was taken into custody.
The prevention officer asked Abraham to take the jewelry she was wearing on her wrists off so that she could be detained.
That’s when she shoved roughly $200 worth of counterfeit money into her mouth and tried to eat it, according nto an arrest affidavit.
It’s unclear how far she got into that process, but that didn’t really help her case — she was arrested and booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
She’s being charged with third-degree grand theft and uttering forged bills.
Per arrest records, her bond has been set at $10,000. While this might sound high for misdemeanor theft, Abraham has a bit of a record.
According to Walmart employees working at the store in question, Abraham had been caught stealing from there several times in the past.
