Uniontown woman allegedly tried to flee police on mobility scooter
An 18-year-old woman allegedly stole about $330 worth of merchandise from Walmart in South Union Township, Saturday night, and fled on a mobility scooter after shoving an employee.
Mahogany Lanai Williams of Pennsylvania Avenue is charged with robbery, flight, retail theft and resisting arrest. She is jailed on a $30,000 bond.
According to the affidavit of probable cause filed in her case, a loss prevention officer, Katrina Jaquay, saw Williams rip the tags off a duffel bag and stuff it with merchandise at about 9 p.m.
Jaquay confronted Williams, and Williams allegedly shoved her and hit her in the throat while telling her to back up or call state police. Jaquay called police and Williams reportedly left Wal-Mart on the scooter with the merchandise.
State police arrived to find her riding through the parking lot.
“I ordered the defendant to stop and exit her mobility scooter multiple times while following her into aisle 8,” Trooper Thomas Lizik wrote in court paperwork. “The defendant looked back at me several times and related that she would not stop.”
Police said she then got up and “ran at full speed” across two rows of parked cars until Lizik apprehended her. She reportedly admitted to shoving the employee, saying, “Yeah I shoved that (expletive).”