Influencer Marlena Velez Busted For Shoplifting A Target Store And Showing Off On TikTok

Influencer Marlena Velez, who’s only 22 years old, has been arrested for shoplifting at a Target Store! And get this, she even used a tricky checkout barcode hack to pull it off. Marlena thought she could outsmart the system and get away with stealing merchandise from Target. She must have thought she was being sly, but her plan quickly backfired and now, she is in trouble with the law. But it doesn’t end there. As if shoplifting wasn’t enough, Marlena took things one step further by flaunting her stolen goods on TikTok! Can you imagine the audacity? And she couldn’t resist showing off her ill-gotten goods to her followers on TikTok. Marlena Velez, 22, who has nearly 300,000 followers on the video sharing app in which she posts videos about her life as a mom to two kids, is facing petty theft charges for allegedly stealing more than $500 from the Target store in Cape Coral, Florida on October 30. Local police said they were called to the store last Wednesday for a report of a retail theft, and when officers arrived on the scene, loss prevention staff told them that an unknown female entered the store and selected a...