WINONA, Minn. – Police knocked at the door of Erin Margaret Beirne, 48, and told her she was under arrest for a $1,300 shoplifting haul at the Menards big-box store on the Far East End. Beirne had been identified on security video pushing a cart with merchandise out the door three days earlier. She was taken to jail. Video showed her cart heaped with a bunch of cameras, jump-starters, a wireless impact wench, 20-volt batteries, a lithium battery, Gain laundry detergent, hand towels and family packs of tooth brushes.

Beirne. Irony: Store security cameras showed a home security cam being stolen