Walmart employees arrested for stealing items while assembling online grocery orders
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Katie Nichole Shaffer, 35, of Alachua, and Janie Elizabeth Shaffner, 38, of Lake City were arrested yesterday and charged with scheming to defraud Walmart, a felony.
The two women worked in the online grocery department at the Walmart on NW 23rd Street; while assembling online orders from the shelves of the store in preparation for delivery to Walmart customers, they allegedly took items out to a vehicle for their own use. They were reportedly caught on video at least 22 times while taking items out of the store. In most cases, Shaffner actually pushed the cart out of the store, but both women allegedly placed the items in the cart. They reportedly stole about $1,400 in merchandise.
Post Miranda, both women reportedly admitted to the scheme and the thefts and implicated each other.
Shaffer was arrested in Alachua County in 2015 on a fugitive warrant from Tennessee for kidnapping and theft, and she also has a criminal record in Arizona. She has no local criminal history, and Judge Thomas Jaworski released her on her own recognizance.
Shaffner has no criminal history, and Judge Jaworski released her on her own recognizance.
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These two work at Walmart!?! Never woulda guessed it.
Idiots.
That one on the right is a WOMAN?! 😳
Shaffer needs to have some hard time in prison.
Happy to know these thug’s are off the streets of Walmart
Never thought Walter Green could come close to being outdone with giving the lightest wrist-slaps to Gainesville’s criminals. But Jaworski has been giving Green a run for his money lately.
I know THIS case is far from anything major but RJ’s seriously been pillow-soft on defendants lately. Not good!
What kind of people are Walmart hiring? Don’t they do background checks? These two are losers.
Red, keep in mind that our commissioners decided a while back that an employer cannot check felony backgrounds. It’s not ” fair”.
ROR on felony charges? Arrested here for a kidnapping felony in Tennessee, in 2015? Why is she still here?
You don’t know why by now?
Yes, you CAN judge a book by its cover.
Theft has been called a victimless crime – esp. during the riots the summer of 2020, when looting was excused by leaders of those protests, but they aren’t victimless at all. It costs everyone more when thieves steal from a business. The business has to recoup those losses.
Theft is a serious crime, and it’s wrong for our criminal justice system to trivialize property crimes like this.
I feel especially bad for those in high crime areas who no longer have access to grocery stores – so many businesses close rather than continue to try to make a profit in high crime areas, and I can’t blame them. But it makes it much harder for the citizens stuck in those areas to feed their families.
Jobs go away as well when the businesses give up.
Post is 100% true, insightful, thoughtful, and well put. The fact that anybody downvoted you – let alone more than one person – says all you need to know about Alachua County and why it has the issues it has.
Maybe they can apply for a job with the city of Gainesville? I hear they hire criminals there?
This why we get these type of employees in Gainesville. Thank your commissioners:
https://alachuachronicle.com/city-of-gainesville-moves-forward-on-ordinance-to-prevent-employers-from-doing-background-checks-before-making-a-job-offer/
So WalMart is under the impression that they have employees who don’t steal from them??