Actress Lindsay Lohan arrives for a preliminary hearing at the Airport Courthouse in Los Angeles on February 23, 2011, for a felony count of grand theft of a $2,500 necklace.

Why Do Rich People Love to Shoplift?

A week before he was busted for petty larceny at Kmart, a man had paid $8 million for an island in the Florida Keys

By Rene Chun

On 6 April 2019, a man was arrested at the Kmart in Key West, Florida, after returning purchases for refunds. There was just one problem: the packaging he returned didn’t contain the original products.

According to the police report, his bait-and-switch scam included two coffee makers – a Keurig ($153.99) and a Hamilton Beach ($54.99). But inside the returned Keurig box was a deflated basketball, and a heavily used coffee machine was stuffed into the other box.