Man arrested for eating jelly beans in store

A man was charged with petty theft after he was caught on a surveillance camera taking jelly beans out of the bin and eating them before he made it to the cash register.

The 34-year-old man was buying groceries at Albertson’s when he stopped at a bin of candy and put an unspecified number of jelly beans in his mouth, according to the Sheriff’s Office report. An off duty deputy confronted the suspect after he had paid for the rest of his groceries and asked him if the candy was good. The suspect replied yes. The deputy told a manager that the man had taken about 10 of the “raspberry-flavored” candies. The suspect denied taking more than two and added that he’d been shopping at Albertson’s for 30 years and that he was just trying the candy to see if he wanted to buy it. (Good strategy)

The deputy “advised him that Albertson’s did not have free samples of candy and he should have known that if he had been shopping at Albertson’s for 30 years.”

The store manager wanted charges on the guy. No he's in hot jelly. The man was also issued a trespass warning. They were priced at $6.99 a pound. The deputy estimated that the 10 jellybeans would have had a value of about $2. They have a “zero tolerance” policy against shoplifting. So let that be a lesson to you jelly bean stealers.