Bad Boosters Busted: Cedriyonna Gaines & Miracle Hall failed at their mission

20-year-old Cedriyonna Krisea Gaines & 20-year-old Miracle Yaquiash-Roshay Hall are each charged with felony theft after they filled up a shopping cart and plastic shopping bags and pushed it all out of the JCPenny store inside Rivergate Mall just after lunch on December 17th. Craig Vogel witnessed them boosting the merchandise and as they were loading the merchandise into a vehicle blocked them in, causing them to flee on foot. A police officer detained them nearby and returned them to the store, where the theft was confirmed on video. The total value of the merchandise was $2,325.00.

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Booster Chevala Southall caught at Rivergate Mall, tells police who was helping her

Police responded to the Hollister inside Rivergate Mall Thursday afternoon, where security had 26-year-old Chevala Southall detained. During an interview, Southall admitted that she and a male she knew as “Trey” came into the store and staged nearly $2,000 in merchandise in preparation to steal it. They then left the store and drove the vehicle to the nearby breezeway, where they could run out of the store and into the car. The pair of boosters then re-entered Hollister and began to bag the clothes they had staged, and security was able to stop Southall as she ran out the door. The clothing in the bags she was fleeing with totaled $1,743.00. Trey fled the store, and Southall provided police with the information she knew about his identity.

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Yasmeen Bibbs charged in employee return-fraud scheme at Champs Sports Rivergate

20-year-old De’Nijha Yasmeen Bibbs is charged with felony theft after police say she stole more than $1,600 from her employer, the Champs Sports store at Rivergate Mall. Manager Michael Mateo and transaction logs and evidence showing Bibbs would scan in various items from the store and process a fake refund, transferring the money to her personal debit card. The thefts began on August 26th, and across five days, she took $1,648.62 in fraudulent return money. Bibbs confessed to the crime after being Mirandized by police.

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Woman charged with selling Benefiber as Heroin

24-year-old Morgan Payne is charged with selling fake heroin. Goodlettsville Police say she admitted to buying heroin and cutting it with Benefiber before selling it to her friends, however, none of the ready-to-sell white substance, packaged in lottery tickets, tested positive for any controlled substance.

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