A transient who police said tried to steal cat food and a case of soda from a Walmart threatened an employee and a customer with a 10-inch knife and a warning: "Don't turn this into a bloodbath."
Orange City Police found an angry Wayne Clark, 48, yelling profanities at the loss prevention officer and a customer who helped detain him, police said.
According to a police report, Clark entered the Walmart at 2400 Veterans Memorial Parkway at 3:50 p.m. Thursday and was seen on surveillance video walking to the pet food area and picking up a bag of cat food priced at $7.78. Clark then went to the soda aisle and grabbed a 24-pack of soda valued at $4.98.
He stood in line at register 13 for a few minutes before heading to the customer service counter where he "fraudulently returned the bag of cat food and the 24-pack of soda" for cash, police said.
When the customer and the loss prevention officer tried to stop him to recover the money, "the (defendant) went to reach for (a) 10-inch silver blade with wood and gold handle knives that he had on his belt in plain view and stated to them, 'Don't turn this into a blood bath,' " police officers wrote in their report.
Police recovered the $13.59 Clark had obtained from customer service.
As police took Clark into custody, he said that after his release from jail he would return to the Walmart to look for the people who detained him and was going to "make them feel how cold steel feels like in the neck," the report shows.
Clark, charged with petit theft, resisting a transit agent while committing a theft and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, is in the Volusia County Branch Jail on $4,000 bail, a booking officer said Friday.
Source-Daytona Beach News Journal
According to a police report, Clark entered the Walmart at 2400 Veterans Memorial Parkway at 3:50 p.m. Thursday and was seen on surveillance video walking to the pet food area and picking up a bag of cat food priced at $7.78. Clark then went to the soda aisle and grabbed a 24-pack of soda valued at $4.98.
He stood in line at register 13 for a few minutes before heading to the customer service counter where he "fraudulently returned the bag of cat food and the 24-pack of soda" for cash, police said.
When the customer and the loss prevention officer tried to stop him to recover the money, "the (defendant) went to reach for (a) 10-inch silver blade with wood and gold handle knives that he had on his belt in plain view and stated to them, 'Don't turn this into a blood bath,' " police officers wrote in their report.
Police recovered the $13.59 Clark had obtained from customer service.
As police took Clark into custody, he said that after his release from jail he would return to the Walmart to look for the people who detained him and was going to "make them feel how cold steel feels like in the neck," the report shows.
Clark, charged with petit theft, resisting a transit agent while committing a theft and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, is in the Volusia County Branch Jail on $4,000 bail, a booking officer said Friday.
Source-Daytona Beach News Journal