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!