Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Ashley Nicole Edge, 32, was arrested yesterday and charged with stealing a wallet from a customer at the Tower Square Publix on January 21.
At about 1:43 p.m. on January 21, an Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy responded to the Publix, where the victim said she had been kneeling to get something from a shelf when a woman snatched the wallet out of her back pants pocket. The victim said she chased the robber as she ran out of the store but lost her when she rode away on a bike.
The deputy viewed store surveillance video and saw a woman running out of the store with something white in her hand; the victim’s wallet was white. The wallet contained $50 in cash and several gift cards with over $600 on them, along with the victim’s driver’s license, social security card, and bank card.
Another deputy recognized Edge in the surveillance video, and a deputy went to her residence; she was not there, but an individual who answered the door described her haircut and what she was wearing, and both matched the woman seen on the store surveillance video.