CLAY COUNTY, FL -- Two mothers are accused of using their children to help them shoplift almost $700 worth of clothes from a Kohl's department store in Fleming Island.
Deputies say 30-year-old Alicia Metcalf and 22-year-old Melinda Blankenship were spotted removing clothes from hangers and then putting the items under their children who were sitting in shopping carts.
The moms are accused of leaving the store without paying for any of the clothes.
Deputies say they also found stolen clothes inside a diaper bag inside the mothers' car.