WILLIAMSPORT – Two individuals have been accused in a plot that involved stealing electronic devices worth thousands of dollars from Walmart stores and selling them in the United States and overseas.
Maurice Lavelle Whyte and Jasmyn Latreece Robinson are charged in an indictment unsealed Monday in U.S. Middle District Court with conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen property.
They are accused of traveling to Pennsylvania to steal Apple iPhones, iPads, Airpods, other brands of smartphones, tablets, electronic devices and watches from Walmarts in Centre and Clearfield counties.
The indictment, which covers the period between September 2019 and March 2020, provides this account of how the thefts took place and what happened to the stolen merchandise:
While conspirators served as lookouts for store employees and customers, others would use pry bars to break into storage drawers, cages and other storage locations to steal the merchandise.
Shopping carts, backpacks, duffel bags and boxes were used to conceal and carry merchandise from the stores.
Merchandise stolen from Walmarts in College Twp., Centre County, and Sandy Twp., Clearfield Twp., was transported to Ohio and other locations.
Social media was used to communicate with prospective purchasers and to arrange the transfer of the stolen merchandise to buyers in Columbus, Ohio, Oklahoma City, and Tel Aviv, Israel.
According to the indictment, $11,221 worth of electronic devices was stolen from Walmart in Sandy Twp. about 11:25 p.m. on Nov. 5, 2019, and about 2:20 a.m. the following day $13,585 similar merchandise was taken from the Walmart near State College.
Before leaving the College Twp. store Whyte used a debit card to purchase an item for $7.54 at the self-checkout, the charges state.
The same credit card was on Nov. 6 and 7 in Selinsgrove and Danville, and in Columbus and Dublin, Ohio, records showed.
Whyte is alleged on Nov. 8 and 11, 2019, to have posted on the Internet photographs of himself and Robinson along with substantial amounts of cash.
The two are accused of transferring and causing to be transferred on Feb. 15 and March 4, 2020, iClouds stolen from the State College area Walmart to individuals in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Oklahoma City.
The indictment also charges Whyte and Robinson with stealing $6,700 worth of phones and electronic devices from a Walmart in Cambridge, Ohio, and similar items valued at $27,000 from a Walmart in Bloomington, Ill.
The Ohio theft occurred about three weeks before and the one in Illinois about a month after the two in Pennsylvania, the document states.
The indictment does not list a hometown for Whyte or Robinson.
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