LITTLE ROCK, Ark.- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said on Tuesday that his office investigated an organized retail theft ring targeting central Arkansas Bath and Body Works stores.
Griffin said in a statement that 27-year-old Balincia Matthews of Little Rock has been charged with 16 felony counts of theft of property and a single felony count of organized retail theft as a result of the investigation. Two additional women, 31-year-old Alexis Worsham and 31-year-old Erica Jordan, both of Little Rock, remain at large and have multiple felony theft of property warrants for their arrest.
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Matthews was arrested by Pulaski County deputies on unrelated charges. Records show she is currently held in the Pulaski County Regional Detention Center for theft, felony failure to appear [in court] and probation revocation, with a hold in place for the Saline and Faulkner County sheriffs.
She had been a previous subject of an organized retail theft investigation by the attorney general’s office, Griffin said.
Griffin explained that his office opened an investigation after a Bath and Body Works investigator told him he believed a group of women was targeting central Arkansas stores and had already cost the company more than $15,000 in losses. The investigation identified the three suspects leading to the warrants, he said…