FAIRFIELD, Conn. An employee at the Stop & Shop on Villa Avenue in Fairfield was charged with stealing from the supermarket Thursday afternoon. Ashley L. Herring, 22, of Ansonia, took customers pocketed customers' payments for herself, according to police reports.
Police gave the following account:
The loss prevention manager at the store called Fairfield police Thursday afternoon and told police that he saw Herring commit the theft while working at the grocery store's Starbucks counter.
She would ring up a transaction as no sale, triggering the cash drawer but not recording a sale. She then issued change to the customers but placed the remaining cash in her own tip jar. Herring took about $50 from the store in this way.
Herring was charged with sixth-degree larceny Thursday. She was released on a promise to appear in court.
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