'Short-Change Artist' Implicated in Theft

A "short change artist" stole possibly hundreds of dollars from Love's Travel Stop Thursday night.

According to an report:

A store employee told police that a man roughly 40 years old purchased an item about 4:40 p.m. and requested that she make change for him.

The employee got confused as the man continued to ask her to make change. It was a process that took about six minutes between two cash registers.

By the time the man left the store, the employee thought something might have gone wrong and informed another worker about what happened.

The store reported one drawer was about $700 short and the other was about $70 short, though there was no way of knowing exactly how much money was stolen.

Police called the man a "short-change artist" - a person who tries to confuse someone into giving more money than that person is owed. Click the YouTube video above to see how a typical "short change" works.