A woman was arrested and charged with grand theft and giving false ID after she reportedly stole a lot of things at the same Target store.
On March 31, the Coral Springs Police Department was called to Target at 4400 State Road 7 because of theft.
The arrest report says that when the police arrived, they were told that a woman, later named Chaka Schnell Smith, 35, of Lauderhill, had stolen from a store and left.
Witnesses and store workers told the police that Smith picked out four KitchenAid mixers worth $1,629.96 and left the store without paying for them.
A Target worker told police that they ran into Smith on her way out of the store. She told them, “You’re doing a good job, baby, but I’m going out that fire exit, and I’m coming back.”
The report says that security video shows Smith clearly filling a shopping cart with expensive items, leaving the store through a fire exit, and loading the items into a black sedan parked in the back of the store.
On April 10, the Coral Springs Police Department got a late report of retail theft at the same Target store. A Target Loss Prevention staffer again named Smith as a suspect in retail theft and confirmed that she was the same suspect who stole on March 31.
The report says that officers put Smith in handcuffs, and when she was questioned, she said that she had planned to steal the chosen items and was working with someone who was waiting in a burgundy car.
Smith was taken to the Broward County Main Jail after being arrested.
