GP Police Incarcerated Female Transient for Stealing Merchandise from Walmart
Grants Pass Police arrested a female transient for stealing from Walmart and bringing the stolen items back to her campsite at a downtown resting site.
According to the Police Department, officers responded to a shoplifting call at the store on NE Terry Lane on Sunday at 11:20 a.m..
Police said Walmart loss prevention called 9-1-1 and reported a female subject later identified as 32-year-old Samantha Gail Crutcher stole hundreds of dollars' worth of merchandise and fled on foot when they confronted her. They said she took clothes, sunglasses and jewelry from the store without paying for them.
Officers observed surveillance video of the theft and identified Crutcher as the suspect. They located her a short time later at the NW 5th Street resting site and at least some of the stolen property was recovered and returned to Walmart.
Crutcher was lodged at the Josephine County Jail for 2nd-Degree Theft and 2nd-Degree Criminal Trespass. She was trespassed from Walmart and issued a 30-day exclusion notice from the resting site.
Posted on 5/27/25 6:19AM by Sam Marsh
