An Orlando woman and her partner were arrested after a theft at a Walmart in Hernando County. The woman pepper-sprayed two deputies during the incident.
The theft happened on Tuesday when the two suspects stole a wallet from a shopper’s purse and used the victim’s credit cards to make over $2,000 in fake purchases.
A deputy was at the Walmart on Wednesday taking a report about the theft when he was alerted that the suspects had returned.
He saw them on live video from the store’s security office. One suspect distracted an elderly woman while the other took a wallet from a shopping cart.
The deputy confronted the suspects inside the store. One of them, identified as Keyisha Henderson, sprayed pepper spray at the deputy.
Henderson ran away, temporarily preventing the deputy from pursuing her. The second suspect, Kierra Tolliver, was detained by store security.
Another deputy found Henderson trying to leave the store and she sprayed pepper spray at him as well. The deputy pulled out his taser, and Henderson was arrested without further trouble.
Both deputies recovered from the exposure to the pepper spray.
Henderson has a history of 39 felony convictions, mainly related to fraud, and has been incarcerated five times. She also had an active warrant in St. Lucie County for criminal use of personal identification information. She had been arrested eight times for failure to appear.
Henderson faces charges including Fraudulent Use of a Credit Card, Petit Theft, Carrying a Concealed Firearm, Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer, and Resisting an Officer with Violence.
She’s being held in the Hernando County Detention Center on an $82,000 bond, and her St. Lucie County warrant is on hold.
Tolliver was charged with two counts of Petit Theft and Fraudulent Use of a Credit Card, a felony. She’s being held in the Hernando County Detention Center on a $7,000 bond.
