November 10, 2010 Laptop thieves pepper spray Wal-Mart manager www.privateofficer.com
MONROE NC Nov 10 2010 - A WalMart employee was pepper-sprayed as two men made off with laptops from the Union County superstore, according to Monroe Police.
According to a police report given to WBTV, two men robbed the WalMart on the 2400 block of West Roosevelt Boulevard around 1:00 a.m. Monday morning.
Police say two black men in their early 20s, approached a sales associate in the electronics department and asked to look at two Dell laptop computers.
When the employee got the computers out of a locked case, she had to place them on the floor to lock the case back.
One man grabbed the computers and placed them into a shopping cart, while the other man left the area.
The first man began to leave the electronics section, and according to police “picked up speed” as the Wal-Mart employee followed behind him. She told the man that he needed to pay for the two laptops in her section, but he increased his speed.
A Customer Service manager stopped the man near the grocery side entrance by grabbing the end of the shopping cart.
That’s when police say the man turned around, pulled out a canister of pepper spray and sprayed the manager in the face and head.
The man then grabbed the two boxes containing the laptops from the cart and ran outside, where he got into the passenger side of a sedan and drove off, police said.
No arrests have been made in the robbery.
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