Jaki Victor {BSO}
A shoplifter who allegedly hit and injured a 71-year-old woman with a shopping cart while fleeing a Coconut Creek Publix was arrested Friday, police said.
Officers rushed to the Publix parking lot in the 4800 block of Coconut Creek Parkway around noon in response to a 911 report of a shoplifter – later identified as Jaki Victor, 22, of Coral Springs – fleeing the store with a shopping cart full of stolen items, according to Coconut Creek Police.
The 911 caller said the thief knocked over a woman with the cart in the parking lot, police said.
Officers said they spotted Victor pushing the cart near the intersection of Coconut Creek Parkway and Lyons Road. He initially refused officers’ orders to stop but was safely taken into custody, police said.
Victor was booked into the Broward County Jail on charges of battery of a person 65 years or older, felony theft, and resisting arrest. He was being held on $8,100 bond Tuesday, jail records show.
The woman he allegedly hit with the shopping cart was taken to HCA Florida Northwest Hospital in Margate, where she was treated and released, police said.
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