Some people find it tempting
to be around junk food and can't resist eating it. But in the case of Penny
Winters, a 63-year-old maintenance worker, Walmart sees that as a criminal
offense. Winters allegedly was caught by the store's surveillance cameras eating
Oreos that she hadn't paid for during her evening shifts at a Walmart in
Portage, Ind. In response, Walmart Stores Inc. notified police and Winters was
charged with felony theft, which could result in jail time for the woman
described by Chicago TV station WBBM as
the "Oreo Grandma."
According to the report obtained by TheSmokingGun.com, winters confessed to authorities that she had stolen cookies at the store in Portage, a city of 36,000 on the southern shore of Lake Michigan. And she's reportedly conceded that she's been eating -- and not paying for -- Oreos, gum and potato chips for more than eight years while working night shifts for Walmart. (The first seven years were spent at an Arizona location.)
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