The Brief
- Dillards loss prevention team identifies a man shoplifting in St. Petersburg store.
- St. Petersburg Police arrested the man and booked him for petit theft at the Pinellas County Jail.
- At the jail, the detention team discovered the man was trying to conceal a meth pipe in his rectum.
ST PETERSBURG – A man’s shoplifting arrest turned into more serious charges when he lied to the police officers taking him to jail.
Niels Faaborg was observed taking a perfume tester and some facial cream from the Dillards Department store on 22nd Avenue North on Tuesday. The loss prevention team observed Faaborg take the merchandise and leave the building with it, not stopping at any counter to make an effort to pay.
Those employees stopped Faaborg outside the store trying to leave on his bicycle, and they flagged down a St. Peterburg Police Officer.…