July 18, 2016 at 4:53 p.m.
Woman charged with shoplifting, flushing concealed drugs at jail
Woman charged with shoplifting, flushing concealed drugs at jail
Codi L. Mayo was charged June 27 with felony retail theft and misdemeanor possession of an illegally obtained prescription.
According to the complaint, Rhinelander police were dispatched to Walmart at 7:23 p.m. June 26 for a report of two shoplifters.
As an officer was en route to the store, she learned that the two suspects were "being uncooperative," and that Mayo had departed Walmart in a pickup truck, leaving her 16-year-old cousin behind.
The report said the officer observed the truck traveling on Lincoln Street and executed a traffic stop. When asked about the shoplifting allegations, Mayo allegedly told the officer she had taken her cousin to Walmart because he had some money, and while he was paying for his purchases, she paid for an energy drink and went to the bathroom. As the two were attempting to leave the store, they were stopped by a store employee. She told the officer that she didn't stay "because her children were in the care of someone else and she needed to get home to them."
After contacting another officer who was with the cousin at Walmart, the officer was told Mayo had tried to exit the store "with a cart full of items." The other officer had learned that Mayo and her cousin had previously been caught shoplifting at Walmart and were not to be on the store premises. Mayo was placed on one year probation for that offense.
She was then placed under arrest.
After handcuffing her, the officer noticed an item sticking out of her shirt. When asked what it was, Mayo allegedly said it was a swimsuit she was wearing because she was going swimming. After being released from the handcuffs, "Mayo went in between her car door and wiggled the top out from under her shirt," the report said. "Mayo then said that she had another one and wiggled out of that one, too."
The officer wrote that as she was placing the two tops into Mayo's purse, she allegedly "wiggled out of what appeared to be a black corset thing," which was also placed in Mayo's purse.
While she was being transported to the Oneida County Jail, Mayo began to hyperventilate and was transported to Ministry St. Mary's Hospital, where she "continually whined, screamed, and hyperventilated" the entire time she was there, according to the report.
Once taken to jail, the officer searched Mayo and allegedly found two new eyeliners along with nine pills in a side pocket.
The pills were identified as being prescription drugs. Jail staff also reportedly discovered Mayo was wearing two swimsuit bottoms with the liners still in place.
The report also says a corrections officer saw her dumping something into the cell toilet. She flushed it before the items could be recovered, according to the complaint. Jail staff did, however, recover a prescription bottle that Mayo had allegedly secreted in a body cavity.
At her initial appearance, judge Patrick O'Melia set a $3,500 signature bond, but Mayo remains in jail on a probation hold. She entered not guilty pleas at her adjourned initial appearance July 5. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 27.
Jamie Taylor may be reached at jtaylor @lakelandtimes.com.
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