A woman has been arrested on suspicion of rifling through a wallet and stealing a credit card from a convenience store clerk while he was having a seizure, police said Wednesday.
Unified police identified her from surveillance footage from the 7-Eleven convenience store at 6852 S. State Street. The video from Oct. 4, which police released Friday, shows the woman standing next to the clerk’s legs while he has a seizure on the floor.
She walked around the counter and took his wallet, according to police. Surveillance video shows the woman exploring the wallet for nearly 30 seconds before tucking a credit card under her arm and returning the wallet.
Several people — including her parents — recognized the woman from the video and called police, according to a probable cause statement. She turned herself in to detectives and told them she didn’t remember stealing the card because she had been on Xanax. But, she said, she took full responsibility.
The stolen credit card was used online shortly after, police said. The woman told police that an online retailer had sent her a confirmation that she’d used the card.
She is a regular customer at the story, the clerk and his co-workers told police. She hadn’t returned since the theft, according to police.