Heists At Two Separate Walmarts Under Investigation

Two brazen heists happen at Oklahoma Wal-Mart stores some 80 miles apart. Both suspects walk in and then walk out with cash. One occurred in Oklahoma City and the other in Bristow.

"It's not the Wal-Mart got robbed. I mean, come on, that's pretty unique. Everybody in the nation knows about it,” Bristow resident William Griffith said.

The man walked in claiming to be an armored truck driver and then walked out with $75,000. It happened in the small town of Bristow.

"It's just unreal,” Richard Peirce of Bristow said.

It takes a lot of planning and inside knowledge to orchestrate such a crime, but just down the turnpike at a Wal-Mart on Northwest Expressway the plan wasn't so complex. A man simply walked in, grabbed a drawer full of cash and then walked out of the store.

That was the first time, but it happened again. The second time he distracted the clerk and then stole the drawer from the register. Then, he walked out of the front doors.

In the Bristow case, the case wasn’t so cut and dry.

"Different things led us to believe, 'Hey, this isn't right. They had to know too much to do this, to do that,' things like that,” Kevin Webster of the Bristow Police Department said.

Police arrested the store manager and his 21-year-old step-daughter for their involvement in the crime.

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William Griffith, Bristow Resident "The biggest thing that happens around here is a horse gets loose or something,” Griffith said.

But in the most recent Wal-Mart heist, the Oklahoma City Police have turned to the public for help.

If you have any information on the Oklahoma City case, call Crime Stoppers at 235-7300.