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Found Cell Phone Leads To Arrest
October 7, 2010
A Century man that allegedly found a cell phone on a store shelf found himself behind bars Tuesday night.
Arthur Walker, Jr., 39, of Pond Street, was arrested by Escambia County deputies on an outstanding warrant for petty theft in connection with the August 30 incident.
The clerk at the Century Food Mart told deputies that she placed her cell phone down on a store shelf while she was working and forgot to retrieve it when she went to help customers at the front counter. When she returned, the phone was gone. Upon reviewing the store’s security camera footage, she said she observed a man she knew only as Arthur take the phone and exit the store.
An Escambia County deputy that viewed the security footage recognized the suspect at Arthur Walker, Jr. The store clerk identified him from a photo lineup and an arrest warrant was issued for Walker.
Walker remained in the Escambia County Jail early Thursday morning on $10,000 bond.
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19 Responses to “Found Cell Phone Leads To Arrest”
jUST CALL THE CELL PHONE NUMBER AND SEE WHO ANSWERS
REGARDING:
“Money on the street,food left in baskets,clothes along the road…It is finders keepers to me since the owner cannot be identified.”
Yet I have returned to Food World after realizing I left food in my basket, asked the workers there about it and they pointed to where it was awaiting my return. There are SOME honest people in this world.
David the appreciative
agreed! there are times and places to use a cell phone at work. however stocking shelves in a convenience store is unlikely one of those times. can’t imagine calling someones cell phone to place a sandwich order but i guess if you get the friend discount… more power to ya.
To Girl in Green;I would never take a purse found or wallet or anything else that could be returned by identification in it.I was happy to turn the purse in and hope the lady in Brewton got her purse back.Money on the street,food left in baskets,clothes along the road…It is finders keepers to me since the owner cannot be identified.I found a baby album sonetime back and went through extrodenary efforts to find the owner. To each his own.
REGARDING:
“it’s good work ethics to NOT use your phone while at WORK!!!”
There are times and places in which cell phones may be part of the work. For example, Number 2 Son takes orders at Subway on Creighton via cell phone or internet. Sometime you need to use them to call the law. Regardless, that is between the employee and the owner.
its good work ethics to NOT use your phone while at WORK!!! as it is also not good ethics to be surfing the net while ‘on the clock’! (hint hint) but since everyone else on here has plenty of time to chat, why dont we address the real problems with this story. why didnt the man give the phone to the clerk at the counter? or $10,000 bond for petty theft? then we have portable meth-lab operators out on multiple much lower bonds???? what gives???
Well said “snorting”!!!
I’ve found things left in carts a lot of times. They don’t belong to me. I turn them back in to the store. If the one who paid for the item comes back, fine. If not, the store gets to sell the item twice. I don’t get it free.
As for the guy trying to turn the phone in to the sheriff’s department, he did. After a deputy came knocking on his door looking for him. He has been on the run ever since, not because of this particular petty theft, but because he already has a rap sheet a mile long. As for those of you that think it’s no big deal, try working on a convenience store salary and having to replace your cell phone because some crackhead took it.
Some people will always be hypercritical of law enforcement or any other authority – because they have such an inflated idea of their own significance and authority that they’re easily threatened…
baloney is good too
Bologna…
so you stole a gallon of milk?
Baloneeeee!
I was at the courthouse when he came to the sheriiffs department to turn it in and he couldn’t find anyone to give it to bc the office was closed
Way to go on catching the phone thief! I love when surveillance pays off. As for the milk……whoever lost that milk WILL be back for it. Not nice!!
Its only falls under finders keepers if you cant find the owners! I hope you never find my purse……Something like that had id and other things to get it back to its owner.Cant tell you how many wallets and purses I’ve ran across working in retail, Never once have I considered it Finders Keepers!!!!! Now a cell phone to me is not worth county taxes. Maybe she should be working and not on the phone!
This reminds me of a recent incident I had while shopping.I grabbed a cart from outside the store,and noticed it still had a gallon of milk in it.Upon going inside I told the cashier about the gallon of milk and went ahead and got groceries.when i got up to the check out counter she said she would have to chrage me for the milk since it was going out the door. I was dumbfounded.What ever did happen to finders keepers? I asked her to call her manager.I walked out without paying for the gallon of milk.Now yesterday my friend and i found a purse in the middle of Highway 29.We flagged down a police car and he advised us to take the purse to Flomaton since it belonged to a woman in Brewton.There is a code of ethics that comes with finders keepers!
His eye sight is probably bad and he thought he was stealing a brownie. I wonder if there were teeth marks on the phone.
I love the comment! Being a child was so much easier. : )
duh…
When we grow up we learn that’ finders keepers’ is not how it actually is….