A 27-year-old Illinois woman who
was accused of stealing several items
from a clothing store was busted after
she posted pictures of herself in a
shoplifted dress on Facebook.
Danielle Sexton reportedly swiped a
multicolored leopard print dress with
a black waistband from Morties, a
store in her native West Frankfort.
After the owner’s son, Kert Williams,
posted a note about the theft and a
description of the woman on his
Facebook page, people quickly began
pointing him toward Sexton’s selfie,
which she had just set as her new
profile pic. Williams passed the
information along to the police, who
arrested her.
“I was pulling up to the front door
and I saw a girl running out of the
store with stuff in her hand,”
Williams, who manages the store,
tells Yahoo Shine. He was
immediately concerned, watched the
store’s security camera footage, and
checked with other nearby shops to
see if anybody had spotted her.
“She’d also taken from a consignment
store down the street from us,” he
alleges
Williams credits the close-knit
community in West Frankfort for
catchng Sexton so quickly. People
sent him screenshots of Sexton’s
Facebook page, while others reported
that they’d seen her walking around
town in the distinctive dress they
recognized from Morties. Even some
of the police who helped nab Sexton
were pals of Williams’s on social
media. “We just had a description
and a direction of travel, but when
the social media aspect played into
it, we were able to identify who it
was. And by looking at the
background of the photograph we
were able to pinpoint where she was
at,” police chief Shawn Talluto told
local news channel WSIL.
“It’s almost too good to be true,”
Williams says about how Sexton was
nabbed. He reports that Sexton also
made off with a shirt, some jewelry,
and a pair of sunglasses. Instead of
lying low after her shoplifting spree,
Sexton put the dress on immediately,
posted pics online, and went out.
“She came in here at three, she was
arrested by six, she was in jail by
nine,” Williams adds. Police also
discovered that Sexton had an
outstanding warrant for an arrest in
another county.
For Williams, the whole situation is
an example of how public
embarrassment can help deter crime.
“Everybody laughed about it a little
bit because she got herself caught.
She put herself out there.” And now,
her face has been splashed all over
the place as a warning to future
criminals who just can’t curb their
selfie addiction.
source: shine.yahoo.com
Comments
Post a Comment