Ernest James Glenn
Oak Ridge police have arrested a Knoxville man who is suspected of grabbing a Playstation 4 from an employee on GameStop on August 9 before fleeing, and stealing a computer from Walmart on July 28 by going out a fire door in the lawn and garden section.
Ernest James Glenn, 28, of Merchant Drive in Knoxville, was arrested Sunday by Oak Ridge Police Department Officer Garrett Robbins. Glenn has been charged with robbery and theft over $500, and he remains jailed at the Anderson County Detention Facility in Clinton.
The alleged Playstation theft at GameStop in Oak Ridge has been classified as a robbery, according to warrants filed in Anderson County General Sessions Court.
ORPD Detective Bill Weaver said Glenn was inside GameStop at lunch time on August 9 when he allegedly grabbed a Playsation 4 valued at $399 from an employee, ran out of the store, and fled in a car. The four-door sedan’s license plate had been covered with a brown paper bag, Weaver said.
The detective said the same incident happened at GameStop in Turkey Creek on August 11.
Weaver said he showed a Turkey Creek victim a line up and “identified the same defendant as the one who stole an XBOX 360.”
In the alleged Walmart theft on the afternoon of July 28, photo and video evidence showed a suspect placing a computer valued at more than $700 into a shopping cart after feeling boxes to find one with a computer in it—as opposed to just a display box, ORPD Officer Derek Burchfield wrote in a warrant.
“The video revealed the suspect exiting a fire door located in the back of the lawn and garden section with the unpaid-for computer, where another unknown suspect was waiting in a car,” Burchfield said. “The two suspects drove off with the computer in the back of the car.”
Walmart managers were alerted when the fire alarm sounded after the fire door was opened.
An employee in Walmart’s loss prevention office backtracked the suspect’s steps through the store with video surveillance, Burchfield said. She was reportedly able to find video of the vehicle’s driver entering and leaving the store.
On December 11, Burchfield said, the employee identified the suspect as Glenn.
“I was able to use booking photos of Ernest Glenn in Knox County, where he is being held for Anderson County, to determine the suspect in this case was indeed him,” Burchfield said.
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