PARAGOULD, Ark. — A Paragould man is accused of stealing a television from Walmart after having been previously banned from all of the company’s properties, according to a probable cause affidavit from the Paragould Police Department.
On May 15, a Walmart employee at the store on West Kingshighway told officers they observed Eddy R. Chapman select a TV and leave without paying. The employee stopped Chapman outside the store and contacted police.
Police said Chapman had been banned from all Walmart locations following a theft incident in December 2021. He was taken into custody and is accused of commercial burglary, a Class C felony, and theft of property, a Class A misdemeanor.
(b)
(1) A person commits commercial burglary if he or she enters or remains unlawfully in a
commercial occupiable structure of another person with the purpose of committing in the
commercial occupiable structure any offense punishable by imprisonment.
(2) Commercial burglary is a Class C felony.
Judge Dan Stidham set bail at $25,000 cash or surety and issued a no-contact order barring Chapman from returning to Walmart.
All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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