A serial shoplifter with her niece in town was apprehended after reportedly attempting to steal merchandise from Walmart on State Road 44 and Morse Boulevard in The Villages.
Lucy Bee Main, 41, of Leesburg, was arrested Wednesday afternoon on a felony charge of theft.
According to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department, an asset protection investigator was watching the self-checkout kiosks while Main and her niece were scanning products. Main allegedly changed price tags and failed to scan many products, including shoes and a sweater. Main then allegedly gave the unscanned merchandise to her niece to bag.
According to the complaint, the niece had no knowledge the products were unpaid for.
The unscanned products amounted to $189.71. When questioned by police, Main allegedly blamed the self-checkout scanner, saying it “froze,” and claimed she was distracted. She denied replacing price tags but told the police, “I take full responsibility that I was the adult who should have been paying attention.”
Main initially denied having a shoplifting history, but a criminal background check revealed two prior retail theft convictions from Pennsylvania in 2015 and 2016.
The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native is no new to law enforcement in Florida’s Friendliest Hometown; she was previously known as Lucy Bee Gallentine.
After being convicted of faking a doctor’s signature to obtain prescription medications such as codeine and clonazepam, she was sentenced to four years of probation and 100 hours of community service in 2023 while living in the Villages of Parkwood. She was working at Lake Regional Medical Center Urgent Care at Creekside Medical in Lake Sumter.
She was convicted of a 2020 DUI when a Sumter County sheriff’s deputy discovered her passed out behind the wheel of a running Kia Sorento in a Starbucks drive-through at 1:20 a.m. Following Wednesday’s altercation at Walmart, Main was taken into the Sumter County Detention Center and released after posting a $2,500 bond.
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