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Man Bilks Store Of $450 In Merchandise

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By KEVIN WIATROWSKI | The Tampa Tribune

Published: September 20, 2008

A Land O' Lakes man was arrested late Friday after he scammed a local department store out of more than $450 in merchandise, Pasco sheriff's deputies said.

Troy Norman Mineo, 42, of 4116 Primavera Drive was arrested at 10 p.m. at the Belk department store, 2111 Collier Parkway, in the Collier Commons shopping center.

Store security officers caught Mineo in the store Friday, just days after they recorded him scamming store clerks out of money, the sheriff's office said.

Mineo's visit to Belk on Friday was the sixth in a string of visits going back to late July, deputies said.

During each visit, Mineo returned for cash items he had just taken off the store's racks, deputies said.

Over the course of two months, Mineo, an unemployed laborer, acquired $467 worth of Belk gift cards, deputies said.

Mineo was released from the Land O' Lakes Jail on Saturday morning without a bond.

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