FOX Carolina 21Deputies: Shoplifter hides DVD players, Wii in pants

Deputies said a man tried to shoplift from a Spartanburg County Target store multiple times, concealing the items in his pants.

According to a Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office report, deputies were called to the Target store on Warren H. Abernathy Highway at 6 p.m. Monday where the store's loss prevention associate said he had been monitoring a white male subject taking electronic items off the shelf, removing them from the package, and hiding them in his pants.

The report said the associate eventually caught the subject and escorted him to the loss prevention office, where he removed two different portable DVD players worth about $209 from his pants.

The subject, Anthony Fowler, 20, was arrested and was later identified as the same person involved in a previous shoplifting from the same Target store on Dec. 3, according to the report.

On Dec. 3, deputies were called to the Target after the loss prevention associate discovered an empty Wii console package in the luggage department, according to another Sheriff's Office report.

Surveillance video showed Fowler enter the luggage department with a Wii box, remove it from the package, and place it in his pants, according to the report. The Wii was worth $149.99. The report said Fowler left the store with paying for the Wii.

Fowler was charged with two counts of shoplifting less than $2,000 and was being held at the Spartanburg County Detention Center on a $5,000 bond.

Deputies said Fowler had two previous shoplifting convictions prior to these two incidents.

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