Cashier Bilks Client, Spends His $255 Refund

Betty Tellois, 37, of Evanston was charged with theft by deception July 3 after a manager at the store where she worked, in the 8600 block of Dempster, said she was processing a return for a customer, and gave a customer a blank card for a merchandise credit, police said. It should have had a $255.24 credit on it. Store representatives said she went to another of the store's locations June 22 and used that merchandise credit to purchase items in the amount of $245.23 and $8.46, according to police. The customer returned a few days later and complained that the merchandise credit had no value on it. Tellois' court date is July 3 in the Skokie branch of the Cook County courts. 

Women Make Off With $320 Worth of Oil and Room Spray 

A manager of a Golf Mill Shopping Center store reported July 3 that around 4:20 p.m., two women entered the store and removed 31 bottles of oil valued at $5 each ($155 cumulative value) and 33 bottles of room spray valued at $5 each ($165 cumulative value), for a total value of $320. The manager said the two women frequently shop at the store, and were talking on their cell phones and refusing offers of assistance by store employees. Police are investigating. 

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