Police in Florida say they have arrested two women after they allegedly beat up two CVS store employees during an argument over Plan B contraceptives.
According to police, 32-year-old Shanetria Neomi Pitts started the confrontation at the CVS convenience store on Biscayne Street around 11:15 a.m. on March 23. In Miami.
Pitts became angry when she was told she had to pay for the pills because she opened the package near a store employee. She allegedly yelled at her clerk, “I’m not a thief, I’m going to pay for the drugs.”
The clerk said she called a manager because Pitts was being “rude” to her.
At that point, Pitts said he needed to get his wallet from his car and left the store, employees said. When she returned, her employees said Pitts brought along a friend of hers who helped beat the manager and clerk.
Pitts “grabbed one of the workers’ hair and removed it from his head,” the report said. The worker then fell to the ground.
At one point, one of the victims said she felt the second woman grab her cell phone from her back pocket before stealing the employee’s store keys and leaving the store.
Police announced that the victims were able to identify the two suspects from photos lined up four days after the altercation. The second woman is 23-year-old Windell Sweetenberg.
Both men were arrested Wednesday, and police said Sweetenberg offered a confession, while Pitts asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The two were charged with robbery.
The manager spoke during a bond hearing Thursday. She and her clerk were treated at the hospital for the fight.
“You decided to come back to CVS and mess with me and the other employees,” she said. “It took a huge toll on us. Not just mentally, but physically as well.”
The judge ordered them to remain in jail without bail and condemned their alleged actions in court.
“She made a conscious decision to go to a CVS store and the woman offered to make her pay. The woman even stole the keys to the store and never gave them back. They took her cell phone. You stole my phone and you didn’t give it back!” said the judge.
The manager told the judge that he had never been attacked in the 15 years he had worked at the CVS store.
Reports regarding this incident are as follows:
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