Marlena Velez, a well-liked TikTok content material creator with over 300,000 followers and over 8.5m lifetime likes on her content material, has been arrested and jailed for stealing from Goal.

Velez, 22, visited the Goal retailer at 1890 N.E. Pine Island Street in Cape Coral, Florida, on October thirtieth, 2024, to do some procuring.

After finishing her procuring, Velez scanned a false barcode with far cheaper costs than what she had truly bought, resulting in the shop struggling a lack of $500 within the distinction of worth between the gadgets bought and the fee she made.

Loss prevention workers on the well-liked retail retailer seen the discrepancy and knowledgeable Cape Coral Police, who commenced an investigation.

Cape Coral Police decided she stole 16 gadgets between family items and clothes with the precise determine being $500.32.

Officers verified the theft through the shop’s safety cameras and developed a suspect, a feminine between the ages of 20 and 35 with lengthy black hair and carrying a tan shirt, tan pants and glasses.

A photograph of the suspect was shared on the social media and extremely, a follower of Marlena acknowledged her and referred to as the cops anonymously. The follower supplied the cops together with her IG deal with which led them to her TikTok deal with the place extremely, officers discovered a video she posted on October thirtieth on the brink of go to Goal carrying the identical clothes and glasses because the suspect.

Officers situated Marlena Velez and arrested her. She was booked into the Lee County jail on fees of petty theft of an merchandise greater than $100 and fewer than $750.

Its presently unclear if Velez made bail and is again house nonetheless, Cape Coral Police posted a belated video on her arrest which may be watched right here.

The video attracted some attention-grabbing feedback from followers of the Cape Coral Police Division.

“Billionaire company house owners too low-cost to rent cashiers ought to anticipate to get ripped off,” one person wrote.

One other mentioned: “I wager she isn’t posting her perp stroll…..”

Others have been a bit extra sympathetic, with one person writing: “Everybody makes errors depart her alone. Everybody sins, having forgiveness is aside of the bible.”