A Manitowoc man has been arrested after stealing from the Manitowoc Walmart.
Officers with the Manitowoc Police Department were called to Walmart on Calumet Avenue on Thursday (May 14th) for a retail theft complaint.
Upon arrival, authorities made contact with an individual in loss prevention, who claimed that a man had switched the price tag on merchandise on four occasions between May 7th and May 13th, resulting in the theft of just over $1,500 of Walmart items.
Police learned that the individual in question, later identified as a 31-year-old Manitowoc man, was seen on surveillance video removing the price tags from toy cars and putting them on items with much higher prices.
He would then purchase them at the price of the toy cars before exiting the store.
Security camera footage from the parking lot was able to capture the 31-year-old entering his vehicle and obtain its license plate number.
Following this discovery, further investigation led police to where the alleged thief lived, and after making contact with the man, he was arrested and charged with two felony and two misdemeanor counts of Retail Theft and one count of Misdemeanor Bail Jumping.
