A former cashier at the Greenwood Walmart has been arrested two years after she allegedly embezzled merchandise and money from the store.
Memphis police made a traffic stop on Yalonda Sherrell Johnson, 25, earlier this week and saw the warrant out for her arrest, Deputy Greenwood Police Chief Johnny Langdon said today.
She was picked up and brought to Greenwood, where she’s being held on $5,000 bond at the Leflore County Jail on a charge of felony embezzlement.
On Sept. 12, 2010, Johnson allegedly picked out some merchandise in the store and put it into a cart, Langdon said. She then left the cart and went back to her register.
About an hour later, a man got the cart and took it to Johnson’s register to check out, Langdon said.
She scanned some items and bagged others without scanning them, he said. The man allegedly gave Johnson two bills, which she handed back to him when she had opened the cash drawer. She also took six $100 bills from the drawer and gave them to the man, Langdon said.
The cost of the items she scanned was $19.76. The value of the merchandise that wasn’t scanned was $301.21, and $600 cash was missing.
A grand jury indicted Johnson in 2010, but Langdon said she skipped town. She had been living in Cleveland, Miss., at the time she was working at Walmart, but Cleveland police said she had moved to Memphis, Langdon said.
• Contact Charlie Smith at 581-7235 or csmith@gwcommonwealth.com.
