Original Blog Entry: Man arrested after leaving store with high heels

truesee — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:09:19 GMT

High heels land man in hot water

Police: He tried to steal women's shoes

Intelligencer Journal

Lancaster New Era

Nov 03, 2010 20:01 EST

Park City Center

RYAN ROBINSON

Staff Writer

A Lancaster man grabbed a pair of women's high-heel shoes, put them on and walked out of a Park City Center store, police allege. Kyle James Eckman, 22, of 541 E. Orange St., Apt. 1, picked out a pair of Elle heels which cost $69.99 in the Kohl's store Monday night, then he took them inside a men's fitting room in the shoe department, where he put them on, city police said.

Eckman put the shoe box in a shopping bag and left the store, police said. He was stopped outside Kohl's wearing the size-10 heels. His own shoes were in the shoe box inside his shopping bag, police said.

Because he has two prior retail theft convictions, Eckman was charged with felony retail theft, police said. He also was charged with giving police a false name.

He was arraigned before District Judge Mary Sponaugle and sent to Lancaster County Prison in lieu of $50,000 cash bail, a spokeswoman at Sponaugle's office said

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