FOUR CHARGED IN WALMART THEFT

FOUR CHARGED IN WALMART THEFT

Four people have been charged after a man bolted out of Walmart with a shopping cart filled with more than one thousand dollars in items and fled the scene without paying for them.

The man allegedly ran past a clerk and out the store to a silver Dodge Neon.

A second male subject got out of the car and helped the man load the merchandise into the vehicle’s trunk.

The vehicle then sped away.

A bystander followed the vehicle along Highway 53 to Gordonsville and onto Interstate 40 east bound where the vehicle was stopped by a sheriff’s department deputy and Gordonsville police.

The items, all of which were recovered, totaled $1,032.

Billy Joe White, 29, Nashville, has been charged with shoplifting and criminal impersonation.

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