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Former Davisville Store Clerk Charged With Stealing Lottery Tickets, Cash, Merchandise
May 6, 2024
A Walnut Hill woman was arrested recently on an outstanding 2022 warrant for allegedly stealing merchandise, lottery tickets and cash while employed at a Davisville convenience store.
Janie Vonciel Kite, now 24, was charged with felony grand theft. She was released from the Escambia County Jail on a $5.000 bond.
The store manager at the Marathon gas station in the 10,000 block of Highway 97 reported in March 2022 that the thefts occurred during a six-day period in October 2021 when Kite was an employee.
Security footage showed Kite taking lottery tickets and other items, along with Kite giving items from the store to several people including family members without having them pay, an Escambia County Sheriff’s Office report says.
Kite was accused of taking $1696.07, including:
- $691.07 in merchandise
- $750 in scratch off lottery tickets
- $280 in cash from winning scratch off tickets.
The store declined to press charges against the other individuals allegedly involved.
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11 Responses to “Former Davisville Store Clerk Charged With Stealing Lottery Tickets, Cash, Merchandise”
@Jason
People buy stocks with the expectation that the value will increase over time. Which it does. As long as the company remains profitable. Which gives company leadership an incentive to raise prices and lower overhead as much as possible.
@James
Oh, this should be fun. Tell me, do you believe that when Walmart posts their quarterly earnings (including all of their reported losses due to the theft risk factor, like replacing products, legal fees, and security costs) their accountants are “forgetting macroeconomics”? Or are they just intentionally deceiving investors to try to downplay their costs due to theft? If so, why would they do something that is both illegal and not in their best interest?
@Bob It’s clear you completely dismiss or fail to comprehend macro economics in your comment. Additionally, your 1% statistic is product value alone, which still amounts to millions of dollars, and doesn’t take into account security and legal fees, additional transport costs to replace items, labor costs to restock loss items, etc.
@Bob —- with Walmart shareholders receiving a whopping 84 cents per share annual dividend (21 cents per quarter) its gonna take a whole lot of Walmart stock before shareholders will be rushing out to be themselves a yacht…. just sayin!
@Bewildered
You’re sort of right.
Rising prices are definitely making people desperate, and many of them are resorting to shoplifting. Some are stealing basic necessities (food, diapers, etc), some are stealing luxury products (TVs, car parts) and reselling them, and some are just stealing lottery tickets hoping that they’ll win big and won’t have to worry about money anymore.
However, prices aren’t going up because of theft. They’re going up because companies exist to make money and will raise their prices as high as they can.
Let’s use Walmart as an example. Their total reported loss due to shoplifting accounted for less than 1% of their total revenue. If Walmart was only raising prices because of theft? Then they would only have to raise prices by 1% to completely make up for it.
Groceries aren’t expensive because the single mom stole some formula. Groceries are expensive because a shareholder wants a new yacht.
The Florida lottery is there to make money not lose money
I’m more alarmed that $750 of scratch tickets only garnered a total $280 in winnings. Seems like the FL lottery is the real thief here
Why does anyone steal scratch offs anymore?
Those tickets are tracked every step of the way. The controls and security features of those cards guarantee that you will never get away with stealing them!!!
2022 warrant. Two years to find her?
Bewildered-Since when are lottery tickets necessary items? “We” don’t steal, thieves do.
Cameras are everywhere… It isn’t 1974..
This is becoming very common with the outrageous prices for necessary items. I witnessed this kind of theft of merchandise several times at the Dollar Store in Lillian. Since the companies will not absorb the loss, it will drive prices even higher for the consumer – no end in sight for the mess we got ourselves into