News / Repeat shoplifter fined
A LITHUANIAN fish factory worker who went back to a Lerwick supermarket for a second bout of shoplifting was fined £350 at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday.
Arturas Garliauskas, of 17a St Magnus Street, Lerwick, admitted stealing a bottle of spirits and foodstuffs from the Co-op on 1 May and returning on 23 May to steal two bottles of spirits and three cartons of fruit juice.
The court heard that the 30 year old had been banned from the store after the first incident, but was spotted by shop staff three weeks later. When they stopped him he struggled so violently that a customer joined in to restrain him.
Speaking through an interpreter, Garliauskas said that he had been drunk at the time and promised not to do it again.
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