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Student arrested on shoplifting charge
JESSICA LEVINE
Issue date: 4/23/07 Section: News
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A female University student was arrested Saturday and charged with taking more than $1,000 worth of merchandise from Heery's Clothes Closet, police said.
Christina Marie Gill, a freshman from Peachtree City, placed a $189 Georgette striped shirt, $298 Verushka mini-dress and a $575 Nicole Miller gown in her purse and attempted to leave the store without paying for the items at 3:50 p.m., according to an Athens-Clarke County Police report.
Store owner Thomas Heery stopped her and called the police.
When police arrived, Gill was sitting on a bench in front of the store crying, talking on her cell phone and repeatedly apologizing, police said.
Gill was arrested and charged with a felony count of theft by shoplifting.
After searching Gill's purse, police found three other articles of clothing with tags from Pitaya, police said.
Employees of Pitaya told police the items belonged to the store, and Gill had been shopping there earlier but did not buy anything, according to the report.
Gill told police she intended to return the items, which she had purchased from Pitaya earlier, but did not have her receipt.
Pitaya employees declined to press charges.
"This is a huge miscommunication," Gill told The Red & Black about the charges. "I'm not that kind of person."
Christina Marie Gill, a freshman from Peachtree City, placed a $189 Georgette striped shirt, $298 Verushka mini-dress and a $575 Nicole Miller gown in her purse and attempted to leave the store without paying for the items at 3:50 p.m., according to an Athens-Clarke County Police report.
Store owner Thomas Heery stopped her and called the police.
When police arrived, Gill was sitting on a bench in front of the store crying, talking on her cell phone and repeatedly apologizing, police said.
Gill was arrested and charged with a felony count of theft by shoplifting.
After searching Gill's purse, police found three other articles of clothing with tags from Pitaya, police said.
Employees of Pitaya told police the items belonged to the store, and Gill had been shopping there earlier but did not buy anything, according to the report.
Gill told police she intended to return the items, which she had purchased from Pitaya earlier, but did not have her receipt.
Pitaya employees declined to press charges.
"This is a huge miscommunication," Gill told The Red & Black about the charges. "I'm not that kind of person."
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TJ
posted 4/23/07 @ 8:26 AM EST
HA HA HA! Yeah, she's not that kind of person!? HA!
Now Christina, exactly what kind of miscommunication took place that would lead you to STEAL more than $1000 worth of merchandise from local shops? Did you think that Mr. (Continued…)
Jeremy
posted 4/23/07 @ 8:31 AM EST
I don't normally break down and cry, while apologizing, over a miscommunication. Sorry, you ARE that kind of person. You are also the kind of person that cannot own up to their actions, which makes you two kinds of horrible. (Continued…)
Not A Klepto
posted 4/23/07 @ 4:30 PM EST
Oh, so surely this must have been an ACCIDENT. You're not that kind of person, huh?
Gosh, I don't know if I could walk out of a store with all that clothes on accident. (Continued…)
BigBertha IS Happy
posted 4/23/07 @ 6:51 PM EST
Wow....now this girl has some good taste. She didn't go for the $15 dollar mini skirt or $20 shirt, she went for $298 and $189 respectively!!!!! What made her look suspicious? I mean I always put the things that I INTEND to purchase in my purse or inside my pants, and attempt to leave before I realize that there is a miscommunication between me, myself, and I. (Continued…)
Dre
posted 4/24/07 @ 11:22 AM EST
get off your high horse you fascists bastards! You don't know what happened, so keep your mouth shut. Nobody wants to hear it anyway. I hope you die and burn in hell =) well not really but i can't wait for you bastards to get arrested so the police can rape you with batons. (Continued…)
Observation
posted 4/24/07 @ 2:13 PM EST
Everyone is legally innocent until proven guilty, just a thought. The information obtained in a police report or given by a store owner is only opinion of the officer and the store owner(they are essentially not legal conclusions). (Continued…)
Dr Dre... Mr NWA
posted 4/24/07 @ 2:17 PM EST
Realty check Dre...you might be the world's biggest dumb ass!!! When you steal $1000 plus worth of items from a clothing store, you need to be in jail with Big Bertha. (Continued…)
The Other Man
posted 4/25/07 @ 4:33 AM EST
Haha, little much of a stalker huh? Bringing the 'evil' ones to justice I see. You're a superman, the man. Super-stalker-man, but that's alright because a good percentage of us are stalkers too. (Continued…)
BigCuddlyGuy
BigCuddlyGuy
posted 4/25/07 @ 1:21 PM EST
let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
BigCuddlyGuy
BigCuddlyGuy
posted 4/25/07 @ 1:47 PM EST
my prayer for all those who sit in judgement of this woman, is that all the demons & skeletons in you own closet are brought to light and you will be judged by the same standards you have judged this young woman. (Continued…)
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