Police: Intoxicated Rock Hill man tried to shoplift using motorized scooter

An intoxicated shoplifter driving a motorized scooter was stopped when he tried to drive the scooter loaded with merchandise through a locked exit, according to Rock Hill Police.

The incident happened at the Walmart on Old York Road about 1:30 a.m. Friday, according to a police report. A store employee told officers a man driving a scooter intended for disabled people, “breaking bottles and causing a scene within the store.”

An officer saw the suspect, 19-year-old Micah Alexander Styles, go past checkout and try to drive the scooter with multiple items in the attached cart through a locked exit door, police said. Styles told officers all the items in the cart were in there before he took the scooter.

A store employee was holding a can of Dust-Off that Styles had been in possession of and is commonly used as an illegal inhalant, the report states. The can was “incredibly cold to the touch, which is indicative of recent use.”

Styles appeared intoxicated and had redness around his nose, police said. He was charged with shoplifting and unlawful use of aromatic hydrocarbons, and faces an additional drug charge for the 14 dosage units of Xanax officers found in a bag in his pants pocket.

Styles was placed in the Rock Hill city jail, where he remained Friday morning under $10,390 bond.

This story was originally published December 4, 2015 at 10:53 AM with the headline "Police: Intoxicated Rock Hill man tried to shoplift using motorized scooter."