Post by Logan on Apr 9, 2016 20:14:56 GMT -6
Maine educator who won $1 million prize denies shoplifting $14.99 blouse
Nancie Atwell, the educator from Lincoln County who was awarded a $1 million teaching prize in March 2015, has been issued a summons on a charge that she shoplifted a white blouse from the Renys in Damariscotta last month.
Damariscotta Police Chief Ronald Young said Renys security personnel using closed-circuit cameras were observing Atwell as she browsed the women’s section at the store March 28 when she removed a $14.99 blouse from a hanger, rolled it up and placed it in another bag she was carrying.
After she left, the security staff called Young and he went to the store to view the video. He didn’t recognize the woman, but snapped a cellphone picture of the screen at one point and posted it to the department’s Facebook page.
“Within an hour I had a call from Ms. Atwell,” Young said.
Read more: www.pressherald.com/2016/04/07/edgecomb-teacher-who-won-1-million-prize-summonsed-for-shoplifting/
Nancie Atwell, the educator from Lincoln County who was awarded a $1 million teaching prize in March 2015, has been issued a summons on a charge that she shoplifted a white blouse from the Renys in Damariscotta last month.
Damariscotta Police Chief Ronald Young said Renys security personnel using closed-circuit cameras were observing Atwell as she browsed the women’s section at the store March 28 when she removed a $14.99 blouse from a hanger, rolled it up and placed it in another bag she was carrying.
After she left, the security staff called Young and he went to the store to view the video. He didn’t recognize the woman, but snapped a cellphone picture of the screen at one point and posted it to the department’s Facebook page.
“Within an hour I had a call from Ms. Atwell,” Young said.
Read more: www.pressherald.com/2016/04/07/edgecomb-teacher-who-won-1-million-prize-summonsed-for-shoplifting/