Posted on 12/04/2024 12:41:41 PM PST by dennisw
A South Florida TikTok influencer has been arrested again for stealing from her local Target - just 10 days after her first arrest for stealing from the same store.
Marlena Velez, 22, who has nearly 300,000 followers on the video sharing app in which she posts videos about her life as a mom to two kids, was taken into custody on Saturday and charged with an additional count of petit theft in connection to a shoplifting incident at the Cape Coral Target on November 20, NBC 2 reports.
Police say she entered the store, selected 16 household goods and clothing valued at $225, but used a fake barcode to scan the items at the self-checkout for a lower price - which was caught on surveillance footage.
Officers were ultimately able to positively identify Velez as the culprit from her prior arrest and because her phone's wallpaper from the security footage matched a photo she shared on Instagram of her and her family, according to the Fort Myers News-Press.
Investigators also said a man was present with her as she shoplifted from the store.
He had a distinctive arm tattoo, which police said appears in Velez's TikTok videos.
It was just one day after that brazen theft that she was arrested for doing the same thing at the same Target store weeks before.
In that case, police say Velez entered the store on October 30 and stole another 16 items - including household goods and clothes - valued at $500.32.
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Have you ever considered becoming an influencer, Denny?
OK Bad Vlad influencer......
Just another disgusting leftard doing what they do best.
Now clean yourself up, you're a mess, what the heck did you have for lunch anyway?
Lunch?
Dude ... I’d be puking up Thanksgiving Dinner ...
“Now clean yourself up, you’re a mess, what the heck did you have for lunch anyway?”
Make sure she aims those zits on her boobs away from your face. You don’t want to get any pus in your eyes.
Problems solved!
Doubt if those lips are for kissing.
“That’s a man, baby!”
Not even Laz would hit it.
You have a point there.
Obviously.
What’s Obola doing in that pic? (Guy wearing blue hat.) Is he all gussied up for some action with Big Mike?
just another lip injection ho like I assumed.
Grotesque. And that’s when it thinks it looks good.
Judge, use her to “influence” the youngins....throw the book, hit her in the forhead spectacular style....get 4M views!
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