NEW BETHLEHEM BOROUGH, Pa. (EYT) — Police say a Brookville woman is facing charges after video surveillance caught her stealing from the Goodwill Store in New Bethlehem Borough.
Court documents indicate the Southern Clarion County Regional Police Department filed criminal charges against 37-year-old Amy Blunt, of Brookville, in District Judge Jeffrey C. Miller’s office on May 13.
According to a recently released criminal complaint, SCCRPD Officer Waclav was dispatched around 11:03 a.m. on April 10 to the Goodwill Store in New Bethlehem, Clarion County, for a potential theft.
The store manager showed police video footage of the alleged theft from earlier in the morning. The store manager stated the suspect had taken a pair of heels. It was also reported that the suspect had slipped them into the bag she was carrying, had not paid for the item, and fled the store, the complaint states.
Store employees provided police with a plate number to the vehicle the suspect had entered and left in. The vehicle registration number came back to a loaner vehicle from a Greensburg, Pa. business. Officers then contacted the business and were given the name Amy Blunt as the person using the vehicle. Blunt was using this vehicle while her vehicle was being worked on for maintenance, the complaint indicates.
Officers tried to contact Blunt via phone regarding this incident and left numerous voicemails expressing a needed interview, but had no contact. Staff from the Greensburg business sent video footage screenshots to SCCRPD of Amy Blunt unloading the rental vehicle of her belongings wearing the stolen shoes the same day of the theft in New Bethlehem, according to the complaint.
SCCRPD contacted State Police out of Jefferson County to have a trooper attempt to get into contact with Blunt, but PSP also made no contact, the complaint says.
The heels that were unlawfully taken from the Goodwill area is valued at $7.99, the complaint notes.
Blunt is scheduled to be arraigned at 10:15 a.m. on Monday, June 17, on the following charges in front of Judge Miller:
- Retail Theft-Take Merchandise, Misdemeanor 2
- Receiving Stolen Property, Misdemeanor 3