GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A Green Bay woman is pleading not guilty to charges she stole two cakes and other items from a local grocery store in 2014.
34-year-old Brenda J. Boyd is facing two misdemeanor counts of retail theft and bail jumping, both with repeater modifiers.
According to the criminal complaint, Green Bay police were called to the Copps Food Center at 1819 Main Street on May 7, 2014, for a report of a female shoplifter who tried to walk out with a cake.
Officers arrived to find Boyd walking around the parking lot, “looking for her car and refusing to return to the store to speak with police or employees.”
Eventually Boyd went back inside the store, but continued looking around the store refusing to stop to talk with either employees or police.
An officer ordered Boyd to stop and she said, “No, I’m looking for my friend.” She did later comply and was placed in handcuffs.
A search of Boyd’s purse found a cookie crumb cake. Boyd told the officer that the cake wasn’t from this store and she bought it at another Copps. Employees looked it over and pointed out that this Copps Food Center address was on the label. Boyd continued to deny that she stole it and that the cake was from somewhere else.
Boyd then questioned the officer about what she did wrong. The cop told Boyd she was under arrest for retail theft, after trying to walk out of the store with a cake and concealed this other cake in her purse.
Boyd told the officer that she, “had not stolen the cake and that she was just trying to walk out to her friend’s car and ask them if that was the cake they wanted as they were the ones who had the money.”
She also said she didn’t think she had left the store after walking out the second doors into the parking lot. Boyd added she, “had no reason to steal the cake, as it was not her birthday.”
Police say, in all, Boyd allegedly took a cookie crumble cake, a one-quarter sheet cake, pumpernickel bread and hot buffalo pieces totaling $23.38.
Boyd is facing repeater enhancers to her charges after being convicted of retail theft in November 2010 and failed to comply with the terms of her bond.
Boyd returns to Brown County Circuit Court on February 11 for a pre-trial hearing. If convicted, she faces more than 5 years in prison.
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