FISHERS, Ind. — A Wisconsin man suspected of stealing over $90,000 worth of calculators from Targets across Indiana and several other states has been arrested after an alleged theft in Fishers.
Frank Covington, a 33-year-old man wanted out of Wisconsin, was arrested over the weekend and charged with several felonies after police found over 20 graphing calculators allegedly stolen from a Fishers Target in the back of his car.
Officers with the Fishers Police Department were called just before 10 a.m. Sunday to the Target store on Commercial Drive for a theft in progress. Shortly after, a car matching the suspect description and being driven by Covington was pulled over near I-69.
While officers were detaining Covington, they found a magnetic device often used in retail thefts inside his pants pocket. Inside his car, police found:
- 23 Texas Instrument TI-84 Plus CE calculators
- 2 Texas Instrument TI-84 Plus calculators
- 1 Texas Instrument TI-Nspire CX 2 calculator
- A large amount of unused Target bags
- A stack of cards with Target aisle numbers listed
- A receipt from a Target in West Milwaukee