Three women have found themselves on the wrong side of the law after allegedly embarking on an audacious series of thefts involving baseball bats, as reported by WBTV. Identified as Veronica Constantin, Alexandra Lonescu, and Jennifer Antonesco, the trio faces charges of felony larceny following a recent incident at D-BAT in Asheville. Police were summoned to the Hendersonville Road shop after reports emerged of a theft on Sunday afternoon. Attempting to make off with the stolen goods, the women were apprehended by the store's staff before police took them into custody.
In detail, a multi-county crime spree has put these three women under scrutiny, with accusations of them stuffing baseball bats worth thousands up their skirts, as recounted by QC News. The spree, which spanned Charlotte, Huntersville, and Concord, involved the trio in similar thefts, linking them to the Asheville case. In a statement obtained by QC News, Cam McCord recalled being distracted by one of the women while the others pilfered the bats. "These three women come in wearing dresses, and I'm talking to the ringleader. She was sitting there, distracting me up front, asking me to size her a bat for her son, who wasn't there," he said. According to McCord, the women's skirts were likely adapted to conceal their loot, as he noted, "It blew my mind, honestly, because I don't know how I didn't see all those bats in her dress and they weren't clicking around. They had to be homemade or something."
Linking the women to a string of similar incidents, authorities are piecing together a pattern that suggests a calculated approach to the thefts. Veronica Constantin, aged 41, Alexandra Lonescu, 31, and Jennifer Antonesco, 21, were caught after trying to flee from D-BAT. Staff at the establishment managed to detain them until law enforcement arrived to make the official arrests.
Further confirming the women's capture, a spokesperson for the Asheville Police Department documented the chain of events to WSOCTV. After being caught by D-Bat staff when they ran away before the women, police arrived at the scene to charge them with felony larceny. Surveillance footage from a previous incident in Huntersville shows the women methodically removing thousands of dollars worth of baseball bats, which sheds light on their alleged modus operandi. Asheville Police have since confirmed that the same women are now facing charges for the sequence of thefts throughout the region.
