Ten minutes after police released a New Holland woman they had just charged with retail theft on Wednesday, she walked back into the same store and tried to steal again, Ephrata police said.
Cynthia Irene Locke, 25, and her boyfriend, Jeremiah Shane Barr, 32, both of the 100 block of West Main Street, New Holland, were charged with retail theft at the Walmart store in Ephrata at 11:20 a.m., police said.
The couple had torn tags off clothing and jewelry, concealed them in a stolen purse and tried to leave the 890 E. Main St. store without paying for the $107.40 worth of items, police said.
Then, at about 1:30 p.m., the same officer was walking back into the Walmart store after releasing Locke when store employees alerted him that she had struck again, police said.
The officer charged Locke with another count of retail theft for allegedly taking $5 worth of eye make-up, police said. Then the officer released her a second time.