BEND, OR -- Bend Police arrested three people from Warm Springs Tuesday, accused of shoplifting more than $2,500 in merchandise. Officers responded to Walmart on Pinebrook Blvd at about 1:20 p.m. after the store reported two customers had wheeled two full shopping carts outside without paying.

The suspects reportedly loaded the items into a white pickup with a brown tarp on the back. Police say the vehicle description matched a previous incident at Winco, when a woman was caut trying to take $341 of merchandise.

Police stopped the pickup at Robal Road and Highway 20, on the north end of Bend, and arrested 34-year-oold Dorthy James, 32-year-old Jessica Tufti and 32-year-old Wade Bennett.

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