A couple of Pennsylvania newlyweds are behind bars after police say they were caught shoplifting food from a supermarket for their wedding reception.
The Centre Daily Times reports 32-year-old Arthur Phillips III and his bride, 22-year-old Brittany Lurch, were arrested after taking more than $1,000 in merchandise from a Wegmans supermarket in State College.
Patton Township police say the couple was captured on surveillance footage loading a shopping cart and leaving the store without paying.
The Centre Daily Times report says the Centre Hall couple admitted taking the items when arrested. Police say the newlyweds told officers they'd been married a couple days earlier and took the food for their wedding reception that afternoon.
They are charged with misdemeanor counts and are being held on $2,500 bail.
PA Man Tries to Steals Rack of Ribs
A central Pennsylvania man has been charged for a second time with trying to steal a rack of ribs by shoving them down his pants.
Carlisle police informed The Sentinel newspaper that 65-year-old Donald Noone tried to hide about $20 worth of ribs in his pants. Police say he attempted to pull the same stunt on May 22 at a supermarket and pleaded guilty to retail theft and public drunkenness.
Police say that since this is a second offense, the theft charge will be considered a more serious second-degree misdemeanor.
There was not a listed telephone number for Donald Noone in Carlisle.
Desperate for Lobster in Mississippi
A man in southern Mississippi is accused of trying to walk out of a D'Iberville grocery store without paying for food items he'd stuffed into his cargo shorts including live lobsters.
Police Chief Wayne Payne says 35-year-old Nathan Mark Hardy was arrested after allegedly being caught stuffing food into his cargo shorts -two bags of jumbo shrimp, a pork loin and two live lobsters.
Payne says Hardy, of Biloxi, tried to escape by throwing the pork loin at employees at the local Winn-Dixie but fell while running away. He was arrested at the scene.
The shoplifting charge is a misdemeanor, but Hardy remained jailed in the Harrison County jail with no bond pending a hearing on a probation violation.
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