A village resident who fled a local Walmart in a BMV will not face criminal charges for shoplifting.
Kathleen Ann Visgalio, 63, of the village of Antrim Dells, completed a shoplifting course and paid $75.28 in restitution to Walmart, satisfying the terms of a pretrial intervention agreement. She was also banned from Walmart stores in Sumter County.
Visgalio called the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office on May 13 and admitted that she was the suspected shoplifter who was in a Theft case at the Walmart store on Sarasota Plaza. Previously, on May 13, a detective went to Visgalio’s home on Day Drive and spoke with her husband, whose BMW had been spotted at the store that day.
According to the police report, she went to the store on March 28 and selected several items. She went to the self-checkout and scanned some of the more expensive items with a 25-cent barcode. Using a debit card, she paid $17.68 for items that should have cost $92.96. She took her items to a white BMW X3 and drove away.
An investigator determined that she had used a debit card issued by Wells Fargo in the transaction. The debit card was in her husband’s name. The white 2022 BMW X3 was also registered in his name. A review of her driver’s license photo showed that it matched surveillance images of the woman scanning the items with the 25-cent barcode in the self-checkout area.
However, the Pennsylvania native was able to avoid prosecution for theft because she successfully fulfilled the terms of the PTI contract.
