Police found Brent Leonesio with a container of orange juice up his sleeve and $30,000 in cash in his pockets.
PITTSFIELD - A man arrested for shoplifting $7 in merchandise from a Pittsfield convenience store Friday morning was found by police to have $30,000 in cash in his pockets.
The Berkshire Eagle is reporting the man, Brent T. Leonesio, 35, of West Street in Pittsfield was charged with a misdemeanor count of shoplifting, third offense. He denied the charges at his arraignment Friday in Central Berkshire District Court.
He was ordered held in lieu of $500 bail.
The Eagle reports that Leonesio was a repeat offender at the store, and management had even hung his photo on the wall to alert workers. The store reported him to police Friday after a clerk allegedly caught him shoving a jar of non-dairy creamer into his pants.
When police arrived, they found Leonesio also had a bottle of orange juice stuffed up the sleeve of his jacket and $30,000, and three containers with 500 pills of various types stuffed in his front pocket.
Police confiscated the pills and the cash, and are now looking to see if he has the required prescriptions.
According to the Eagle, police said Leonesio told them he carries that much money with him “so he doesn’t get robbed.”
