Woman Arrested For Grand Theft

By Jacob Bembry
Greene Publishing, Inc.
An employee of Citi Trends was arrested for letting people leave the store with numerous items that she had not rang up and charged them for on Wednesday, September 3.
According to a Madison Police Department report, Patrolman Eric Gilbert was dispatched to Citi Trends in reference to an employee letting people walk out of the store with merchandise.
Upon Gilbert’s arrival, he spoke with Tiffany Travis, who works at Citi Trends on her days off from the police department. Travis advised that there was an employee named Johniethiea Izadella Boykin in the back room they had caught on tape letting people walk out of the store with merchandise totaling over $1.400 without paying for it.
Gilbert spoke with a loss prevention agent for Citi Trends, who spoke with Boykin who admitted letting people walk out of the store without paying.
Gilbert spoke with the employee who advised that she did not realize she was doing anything wrong.
Sgt. William Greene, who assisted Gilbert in the arrest, placed Boykin under arrest for grand theft and transported her to the county jail.