Police: Men went on $1,500 shoplifting spree at Walmarts in Harrison, Frazer

Two men are accused of stealing more $1,500 worth of electric toothbrushes and razors, teeth whitening strips and food from Walmart stores in Harrison and Frazer.

Frazer police said they received a tip Saturday from police in Harrison that the two men had shoplifted at the Walmart in Harrison and could be headed to Frazer.

“(Harrison police) said the men were probably on the way to our Walmart at Pittsburgh Mills mall,” Frazer police Chief Terry Kuhns said Tuesday.

Frazer police said responding officers found a pickup reported to be carrying the men parked outside the Walmart at the Pittsburgh Mills shopping complex, and several items with store security sensors on them were in the bed of the truck.

Police said they watched as the men — later identified as Craig James Hazlett, 35, of Harrison, and Jacob Alan Greathouse, 29, of Evans City — placed two backpacks in the bed of the pickup after leaving the Frazer store.

After police pulled over the pickup, they said they found store merchandise along with steel snips and scissors that had been used to cut security sensors.

Police said they arrested Hazlett. Greathouse was arrested later in Brackenridge, according to a police report.

Walmart reported that about $776 in merchandise had been stolen from the Frazer Walmart, while about $739 was stolen from the store in Harrison, according to Frazer police.

Police charged Hazlett and Greathouse with receiving stolen property, retail theft, defiant trespass and conspiracy, all misdemeanors. Hazlett is also accused of having instruments of crime.

Hazlett was arraigned and released until a preliminary hearing on Monday, Oct. 28.

Greathouse, also wanted by Crawford County for failure to appear in court, was ordered to be held in Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh on $25,000 bond. He also has a hearing scheduled for Monday.