[StBernard] Man Breaks Into Woman's Home After Being Chased On A Shoplifting Incident

[Westley Annis]

It sounds *innocent* enough, a theft,  but here's what they can do with baby
formula

http://tinyurl.com/illegal-uses-for-babyformula





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	Man Breaks Into Woman's Home After Being Chased On A Shoplifting
Incident
	Written by WGNO ABC26 News | Wednesday, 15 September 2010 13:30
	
	
	A New Orleans man broke into an Arabi resident's home and confronted
her
	before noon on Tuesday, asking to hide him from St. Bernard Parish
sheriff's
	deputies who had chased him after a shoplifting in Chalmette, but
officers
	burst into the house and arrested the suspect after a struggle,
Chief Deputy
	Sheriff James Pohlmann said.
	
	The woman - who said the man offered her money to hide him - was on
the
	phone with her boyfriend when the man came through a back door and
she was
	able to tell the boyfriend what was happening, which led to deputies
being
	alerted to the exact location, Pohlmann said.
	
	The woman wasn't injured.
	
	"This was an unusual shoplifting incident that became more serious
when the
	man involved bailed out of a vehicle and broke into the home of a
	resident,'' Pohlmann said. "Numerous men and women of the Sheriff's
Office
	responded quickly and arrested all the individuals involved without
anyone
	being injured.''
	
	Two New Orleans women, one a sister of the intruder and the other
the man's
	girlfriend, were arrested in a vehicle near where the man was
arrested and
	also booked in the shoplifting incident at the Wal-Mart store in
Chalmette
	and other charges.
	
	Don Raines, 29, was booked with unauthorized entry of an inhabited
dwelling
	for breaking into the victim's house on Esteban Street in Arabi
before 11
	a.m. and with false imprisonment of the woman in her home, Pohlmann
said.
	Other charges included theft by shoplifting, possession of some $900
worth
	of stolen infant formula, flight from an officer and resisting
arrest. He
	was booked into St. Bernard Parish Prison.
	
	Pohlmann said Raines' sister, Danielle Raines, 25, and Don Raines'
	girlfriend and mother of two children, Whitney Phipps, 19, were
arrested in
	a car - also on Esteban Street - by Sheriff's Deputy Henry Senez.
Two young
	children of Phipps were also in the vehicle.
	
	Additionally, the drivers' license of a woman whose purse was stolen
in
	Jefferson Parish recently was found in the vehicle after the arrests
and
	Jefferson Parish authorities have been alerted, Pohlmann said.
	
	Seventy-two cans of infant formula were found in the getaway car.
Danielle
	Raines was booked with shoplifting, aggravated assault on two
sheriff's
	deputies, resisting arrest
	
	Danielle Raines was driving the vehicle that sped away from Wal-Mart
after
	the shoplifting but a ranking sheriff's official immediately
followed them
	and notified he sheriff's communications division.
	
	At some point, near where Don Raines was arrested in the home,
Raines got
	out of the vehicle and made his way to the house, Pohlmann said.
	
	Senez and other detectives and deputies also responded to the
incident and
	Senez initially saw the car driven by Danielle Raines on Center
Street in
	Arabi and stopped them on nearly Esteban Street, Pohlmann said.
	
	Danielle Raines was booked with two counts of aggravated assault on
	sheriff's deputies, shoplifting, resisting arrest, reckless
operation of a
	vehicle and with child endangerment for the children in the car.
	
	Phipps was booked with shoplifting and child endangerment.
	
	Pohlmann said Don Raines, holding one of the children, entered the
Wal-Mart
	store while the women waited in the vehicle. At some point he tried
to take
	a cart carrying infant formula out of the store, allegedly without
paying,
	but was noticed by a store employee and then he fled.
	
	A ranking sheriff's official who was at the store was told what
happened and
	began following the fleeing vehicle and other eputies were notified.