Leitchfield police arrested a man for using a 12-year-old boy to shoplift at a local retail outlet.
On Friday afternoon at 4:25, Leitchfield Officers Ty Whitaker and Chuck Hoover responded to Walmart on a shoplifting complaint. Upon arriving and conducting an investigation, police determined that 24-year-old Brett Kraszewski, of Hardinsburg, had been directing a 12-year-old male to steal over $500 worth of items from the store.
“(The suspect was) responsible for the solicitation of a 12-year-old juvenile shoplifting goods totaling $528 by demanding that the juvenile obtain the items even after an initial unsuccessful attempt. (Kraszewski was) discovered to have remained in contact with the juvenile via telephone while the juvenile was inside the business, continuing instruction to the juvenile (concerning) what items to steal from the business,” Whitaker wrote in the arrest citation.
The suspect, according to the citation, admitted to sending the juvenile into the store to steal items “multiple times.” Additionally, Kraszewski told police that at some point he “abandoned the juvenile at the business.”
The suspect was arrested and became combatant, as he is accused of kicking a cruiser door to prevent being placed in the vehicle, and once inside, he “began kicking the window of the cruiser with a great deal of force …”
He was lodged in the Grayson County Detention Center where he’s been charged with solicitation to theft by unlawful taking – shoplifting (more than $500, less than $1,000), third-degree unlawful transaction with a minor, endangering the welfare of a minor, resisting arrest, third-degree escape (attempted), second-degree disorderly conduct, and third-degree criminal mischief.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
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