Two people stole more than $22,000 worth of cellphones from a Little Rock Wal-Mart early Tuesday after threatening a teen employee with a weapon, police said.
Little Rock police officers were flagged down around 4:20 a.m. in response to a theft at the Wal-Mart at 2700 S. Shackleford Road, according to a police report.
A 19-year-old employee told police that he was inside the store when he saw two people behind a counter stealing cellphones. One of them held up a weapon that was either a "sledgehammer or axe-style weapon" and said something like, "Stay away from us," the teen told police.
The pair stole 40 cellphones, valued at about $22,900, and left through a back door, police said.
Around the same time, a different set of officers tried to pull over a dark-colored sedan that was seen leaving the area at a quick speed.
When police tried to stop the car, it fled north on I-430 toward Cantrell Road, and officers stopped their pursuit because they had not learned about the robbery, the report said.
No suspect was named on the report.
