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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Authorities announced on Friday that a teenager from Detroit, Michigan who is wanted for shoplifting nearly 100 times at Walmart stores across the country was arrested in the Pittsburgh area. According to the Westmoreland County District Attorney’s Office, eighteen-year-old Andrew Reed was arrested in the parking lot of the Walmart in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, on Thursday after police were called to the Walmart on Mills Drive for a theft in progress that day. Investigators note that they believe he’s responsible for a cross-country retail theft spree that spanned multiple states. North Huntingdon Police confirm that an employee saw a man trying to make a fraudulent purchase at a self-checkout. Employees intercepted Reed, and he left the store without the merchandise, which police state was worth more than $2,100. The Westmoreland County District Attorney’s office expressed that police identified Reed after they stopped him in the parking lot and Reed was responsible for 97 separate incidents in the loss prevention database of Walmart, totaling over $146,000 before he was arraigned on charges of retail theft, theft by deception, criminal use of a communication facility and trespassing. North Huntingdon police claimed they learned Reed had several active warrants across the United States and had been “trespassed indefinitely” from Walmart in Indiana, Florida and Arkansas. He was denied bail.