A COUPLE of alleged shoplifters ran from police and security guards at Southland but were later apprehended in Tennyson St, Cheltenham, Wednesday 8 February.
A staffer told police he saw the man and woman in the David Jones cosmetics section, 5.30pm. He said the man selected a bottle of aftershave and handed it to his accomplice, who then wrapped the bottle in cloth and placed it in his backpack.
Aware of being watched the pair moved up to the store’s second level but then crossed over into Big W, where police allege the woman stole a handbag and sunglasses.
Challenged by security at the store’s entrance the woman walked away and the man refused to open his backpack. She then returned and they both walked quickly out into the carpark.
When police arrived they saw the pair running across Tennyson St with security in hot pursuit.
After they split up, police nabbed the woman while the man, cornered, allegedly struck a security guard with his bag with a heavy object inside, cutting the male security guard’s head.
Police said the woman, 33, was wanted on five outstanding arrest warrants. She was remanded in custody to appear at Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court at a date to be fixed.
The man, 23, was charged with unlawful assault and bailed to appear at the same court at a date to be fixed.
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 22 February 2017