Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Patricia Ellen Lord, 44, of Archer, was arrested yesterday and charged with stealing 90 pallets from behind the Publix at Newberry Square.

An Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy responded at about 1:25 a.m. on Thursday to a report that someone in a dark-colored SUV was behind the Publix, stealing pallets and loading them on a trailer.

The person who called 911 followed the SUV and told the call-taker that pallets had fallen off the trailer as the SUV drove away. The deputy reported that an SUV with a trailer full of pallets passed him on Newberry Road, so he turned around and conducted a traffic stop at about 13200 W. Newberry Road. The deputy reported that there was a loose ratchet strap on the trailer, indicating where the pallets had fallen off.

When Lord got out of the SUV, the deputy asked her where she was coming from, and she reportedly said she was just riding around.

Post Miranda, Lord reportedly confessed to taking about 90 pallets, valued at $100 each, from Publix and said she intended to re-sell them.

Lord has been charged with grand theft. She is on federal probation for selling narcotics and has seven felony convictions (one violent) and three misdemeanor convictions (two violent). Judge Thomas Jaworski set bail at $5,000.

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