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Man steals $2000 worth of office supplies from Staples by telling clerk he already paid for them.
That was easy.

BY J.D. GALLOP
FLORIDA TODAY

PALM BAY — A 42-year-old man who police said walked out of a local business with nearly $2,000 in office supplies after convincing a store clerk the items were his, will head to court next month.

Anthony J. Figueroa of 1359 Carr Circle was charged with grand theft after Palm Bay police were called to the Staples store at 1595 Palm Bay Rd. to investigate reports of stolen supplies, reports show.

Figueroa is expected to go to court next month on the charge, records show.

Palm Bay police said that Figueroa went to the Staples and set aside a number of items in the business supply store.

He later returned and convinced a store clerk that he had already paid for the supplies and then removed them, reports show.

Figueroa was arrested Oct. 25 after store managers contacted police, reports show. He was booked into the Brevard County Detention Center, where he later bonded out, records show.