A Yolo Superior Court judge sentenced a woman to three years in prison for stealing a shopping cart full of merchandise from a West Sacramento Raley’s and hitting a store employee in the face with a glass candle after he tried to stop her, prosecutors said.
Traireese Jones, 28, of West Sacramento was convicted of second-degree robbery, assault with a deadly weapon while committing retail theft and criminal conspiracy, the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday in a news release.
Jones pleaded no contest to those felony charges on Nov. 13, court records show. The robbery charge included an enhancement for committing the crime with a deadly weapon.
The robbery and assault was reported about 10 a.m. Sept. 9, 2022, at the Raley’s at 1601 West Capitol Ave.
Prosecutors said West Sacramento Police Department officers responded to the reported robbery and spoke with a Raley’s store’s loss prevention employee who had a cut on his forehead and “was bleeding profusely.”
The store employee told police that he had tried to ask Jones to stop stealing from the store. Prosecutors said he followed Jones as she exited the store and tried to grab the handle of the shopping cart full of merchandise.