Banned Walmart Customer Loses Shoplifting Appeal

A Hopatcong woman who made a pact with Walmart to never again enter the national chain’s stores lost an appeal of a shoplifting conviction Thursday, incurring more than $1,100 in fines.

Superior Court Judge William McGovern in Morristown upheld a ruling against Johanna Cassimore, 64, after receiving testimony from Walmart’s loss prevention team and viewing video surveillance, according to nj.com.

Cassimore had been charged with shoplifting in June 2014 and again in December 2014. It was after the first incident, which took place at the Ledgewood Mall location on Route 10 in Roxbury Township, that Cassimore signed an agreement with the company to never set food inside the chain’s facilities again.

Not only did she go back to shop in December, this time at the Mt. Olive location, but was frank about not adhering to the agreement back in July when she was convicted of the December shoplifting.

“No one knows me at any other Walmarts,” she told the Daily News. “I won’t shop at the one (where she was arrested) anymore. I’m not stupid.”

Cassimore was indicted in October 2012 by a Sussex County Grand Jury for allegedly stealing her daughter’s identity during a five-year, five-month period, during which she obtained items and services for herself, the Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office said.

As a result of the judge upholding the conviction Thursday, Cassimore was fined $1,108, the report said. The banishment agreement with the company has not been rolled back.