WINONA, Minn. – Police arrested a Wisconsin woman wearing slippers that, according to Fleet Farm, had just been shoplifted from the store. The arrest was about 4:20 p.m. at a nearby gas station. In the woman’s car police spotted capped and uncapped syringes and then found 13 grans of meth in the front-seat console. Police had been called to the Fleet Farm megastore, at 920 U.S. Highway 61. Store detectives said two customers were stacking carts suspiciously full of merchandise, including slippers off a rack. The couple ditched the carts inside the store and left. Polic followed the car. The arrest followed. Lyndsy Marie Ward, 35, of Cross Plains, Wisconsin was charged with possessing drugs, shoplifting and giving police a false name.
Ward. She could hardly wait to slip into her new footwear.