A Lackawanna County, PA Prison counselor who was charged with felony shoplifting last month and was out on bail from that case www.dailykos.com/… was charged with misdemeanor shoplifting on 9 December 2017.
49 year old Kimberly A. Rupp of the Scranton, PA area suburb of Carbondale, PA tried under ringing items at a Walmart self-checkout in the Scranton suburb of Dickson City, PA thetimes-tribune.com/… This Walmart is located in a complex that includes Target and is located across commerce boulevard from the Kohl’s store where Rupp was charged last month with felony retail theft, which is Pennsylvania’s version of shoplifting.
Walmart’s loss-prevention officers watched Rupp scan one item, then put all the items she had in a plastic bag and walk away without paying for any of the $206.77 worth of merchandise. Loss-prevention stopped Rupp from leaving Walmart and Dickson City Police officer Michael Ranakowski charged her with misdemeanor retail theft. because of the amount she tried to steal, Pennsylvania authorities charged her with misdemeanor retail theft. Rupp has been an employee of the county prison for almost 24 years, and makes $57,722 a year. Lackawanna County declined to release any information about Rupp, other than Rupp’s title and date of hire.
Magisterial District Judge John P. Pesota released Rupp on $10,000 unsecured bail. If Rupp were a man or a minority person, Rupp’s bail would have been revoked.