Crime & Safety
PD: Woman Arrested for Shortchanging Clerk After Pedicure
Middletown Police determined the clerk was in the process of putting a clear top coat on Parker's toenails and therefore owed the full bill.
The following police reports are obtained directly from the Middletown Police public information officer and inclusion on this list reflect charges filed, not convictions.
A North End woman who Middletown police say tried to pay less than half-price for a $22 pedicure was arrested last week for larceny.
On July 2 at 7:36 p.m., Markesha S. Parker, 36, of Rapallo Avenue was at Nail City on Main Street and refused to pay the owner after she got a pedicure, the report says.
The agreed-upon price was $22, police say, and half- to three-quarters way through, Parker told the owner to stop and she'd pay $10, but the clerk said the manicure was done and she owed $22.
Police determined the clerk was in the process of putting a clear top coat on Parker's toenails and therefore owed the full bill.
She was charged with sixth-degree larceny.
A North End woman who Middletown police say tried to pay less than half-price for a $22 pedicure was arrested last week for larceny.
On July 2 at 7:36 p.m., Markesha S. Parker, 36, of Rapallo Avenue was at Nail City on Main Street and refused to pay the owner after she got a pedicure, the report says.
The agreed-upon price was $22, police say, and half- to three-quarters way through, Parker told the owner to stop and she'd pay $10, but the clerk said the manicure was done and she owed $22.
Police determined the clerk was in the process of putting a clear top coat on Parker's toenails and therefore owed the full bill.
She was charged with sixth-degree larceny.
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