Woman barred from Barrington coffee shop

Store manager tells police woman tried to shoplift items

Posted 9/29/17

A 63-year-old woman has been barred from entering the Starbucks in the Barrington Shopping Center. 

The manager of the store obtained a no trespassing order against the woman after an …

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Woman barred from Barrington coffee shop

Store manager tells police woman tried to shoplift items

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A 63-year-old woman has been barred from entering the Starbucks in the Barrington Shopping Center. 

The manager of the store obtained a no trespassing order against the woman after an incident on Sunday, Sept. 24. According to police, the 63-year-old woman was inside the Starbucks at about 5:20 p.m., when she started taking items off the shelves and placing them inside the grocery store bags she was carrying.

Police said the store manager confronted the woman, who denied the accusation that she was shoplifting. The woman said she had every intention of purchasing the items. She returned then items to the shelves and left the store and headed to the CVS Pharmacy in the shopping center.

The store manager called police, who responded to the CVS. Police said they could not charge the woman because she had not actually shoplifted the items — if she had left the store with the goods she could have been arrested. 

Instead, the Starbucks store manager requested a no trespassing order against the woman. 

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