TV thief threatens store employee with knife: police
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Police are looking for a woman who threatened a store employee with a large knife while trying to steal a TV on Sunday morning.
Police said the employee was threatened at about 11 a.m., when they approached the thief in the store’s parking lot on the 1000 block of Empress Street.
An off-duty police officer who happened to be at the store used a shopping cart to create a barrier between the woman, the employee and other shoppers.
The woman fell to the ground, dropped the TV and fled without it, police said.
The woman is in her mid-20s with mid-length black hair. She was wearing a white jacket and black tights.
Police asked anyone with information about the incident to call police at 204-986-6219 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 204-786-8477 (TIPS).