A woman was caught during a traffic stop in Gadsden, Alabama, on Tuesday. She is thought to be part of a theft spree that has happened in 46 other states and at Walmart stores across the Southeast, according to reports.
Reports from the Rome Police Department and the Etowah County Sheriff’s Office in Alabama say:
In Alabama, 21-year-old Larisa Vasile-Sima is charged with theft and criminal mischief, among other things. Sima told the deputies in Etowah County jail that she was Armenian and didn’t have a driver’s license, Social Security number, or home when she was locked up.
Since she was arrested, security video from the East Rome Walmart has shown that she was one of two women who broke into a rotating jewelry display case around 5 p.m. on Sunday, July 7 and stole different pieces of jewelry. The report said that Sima and the other woman left the store a short time later and got into a waiting gray minivan.
She is also thought to have stolen gold worth $1,138 from what was said to be an unlocked display at the same Walmart earlier that day, at 10:54 a.m.
A Walmart employee told police that Sima and several other people were arrested in Alabama on charges that were not connected to the case at hand.
He also told police in Rome that she has been arrested 46 times in the Southeast for thefts totaling about $70,000 worth of goods from the company.
She is being held in Etowah County, Alabama, without bond right now.
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