Beltrami County (trfnews.i234.me) — A Bertha, Minnesota woman is charged with felony theft after an alleged under-scanning scheme at a Bemidji Walmart.
What the charge alleges
Jennifer Joy Olson, 44, of Bertha, is charged with felony theft.
The complaint lists the charge as taking movable property without consent.
Court records list the offense date as Dec. 16, 2025.
The charge description alleges the value exceeded $5,000.
Olson is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.
What the police say happened at Walmart
According to the complaint, officers responded to Walmart in Bemidji around 9:30 p.m.
An asset protection employee reported a suspected theft.
Police reviewed surveillance video and receipt records, the complaint states.
The video allegedly showed a woman repeatedly scanning an item for $0.42.
The complaint says she acted like she was scanning the real items.
Court records say she paid about $70 for a cart of items.
After she left the checkout, the staff checked the cart, the complaint states.
The complaint says the cart contained $1,427.10 in merchandise.
Police later confronted Olson, the complaint states.
Court records say she provided the barcode she used for the $0.42 scans.
Warrant noted in court records
The complaint also says Olson had an active felony warrant.
The warrant was listed in Mahnomen County case 44-CR-22-306.
The complaint lists multiple warrant dates in that case.
Those dates include June 6, 2022, and Nov. 21, 2023.
It also lists May 28, 2024, and March 17, 2025.
More information
You can read Minnesota’s theft statute here: Minnesota Statutes 609.52.
Minnesota court access information is here: Minnesota Judicial Branch: Access Case Records.
I’m Chris Harper reporting for TRF News.
Good she’s been stealing for years.
Her buddy Kody egland too
People do it all the time, just a matter of time before they get caught… then poor me, I got caught!
she has warrants out for her to . she on meth . I wonder if they gave her a drug test well now she will pay the price better keep her in there she will be on the run don’t believe what comes out of her mouth don’t believe her she likes to lie
The amount of meth heads around trf and bemidji you’d think they’d have more important news to report 🤣
Jay Martine I once was one of those meth heads and I would never steal And if I need a meth I would have boyfriends you can still have an addiction and not be a full-blown criminal no wonder why our Walmart prices go jacked up cuz of thieves. Way to go about time going after real criminals and not just addicts.
They have to give something for the old people to talk about
And they didn’t think this would happen when they put in self checkout. Go back to hiring employees.
Kenneth Delaney why don’t you learn how to do shit urself people don’t get paid enough to put up with ur bullshit
Then why do you follow me around I didn’t take anything just a drink of milk and put it back 😄