A woman reportedly stole a T-shirt from Hot Topic by walking out wearing it.
Gallup Police Officer Aaron Marquez met with a Tribal Security sergeant at Oasis Mediterranean Restaurant, 1280 W. Maloney Ave. May 23. According to Marquez’s report, the security officer told him that a woman named Shayann Jim stole from the Rio West mall’s Hot Topic.
The security guard explained that another guard recognized Jim, 24, as she was walking out of the mall.
The Hot Topic store reportedly didn’t want to press any charges, and only wanted the items Jim stole back.
When Marquez spoke to Jim, she said she was walking around the mall, planning on buying things, but when she saw the total cost of the items, she planned to buy at Hot Topic she realized she was “short on change.” She said she walked out of the mall then, but she denied taking anything.
Metro Dispatch told Marquez that Jim had multiple warrants out for her arrest for trespassing and shoplifting.
Marquez arrested Jim, and as he was searching her for any weapons, he found a clear pipe with a crystal-like substance in it wrapped in a pink bandanna and shoved into Jim’s sweatpants. Jim said that the pipe wasn’t hers, and that she had just found it.
After Jim was driven to the McKinley County Adult Detention Center, two bags of a crystal-like substance, which was believed to be meth, were found in her socks.
Jim was charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, and trespassing. Her preliminary examination is scheduled for June 7
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