Shake shakedown: New police video shows arrests in Alliance nutrition drink theft case - Cleveland 19 News

ALLIANCE, Ohio (WOIO) - New police body camera footage obtained by 19 Investigates shows the arrests of a Pennsylvania man and woman who are accused of using fraudulent coupons to steal nearly $1,600 worth of Ensure nutrition shakes from two Alliance grocery stores.

Soud Kanan, 27, and Asmaa Kanan, 25, both of Sharon, Pennsylvania, were arrested around 7:20 p.m. Wednesday in the parking lot outside of Marc’s on W. State St. in Alliance.

Soud Kanan, 27, and Asmaa Kanan, 25, of Sharon, Pennsylvania(Alliance Police Department)

In the video, the suspects can be seen standing next to a Penske rental van with a shopping cart full of Ensure drinks.

According to Alliance Police, the pair loaded up $892.73 worth of merchandise at the store, including 80 packs of Endure, and then used 190 fraudulent coupons during the checkout process to reduce the total cost to $43.94.

Investigators said Asmaa Kanan abandoned a second shopping cart containing 60 packs of Ensure when she saw police enter the store.

In addition to the shakes in the shopping cart, officers also found hundreds of packs of Ensure in the back of the van. Police said they believe the bottled drinks were illegally obtained from Marc’s stores in Boardman and Salem.

Alliance Police said they found hundreds of packs of Ensure nutrition shakes in the back of a rental van following the arrests of Soud and Asmaa Kanan on Wednesday evening.(Source: Alliance Police)

The suspects are also accused of stealing $703.36 worth of Ensure from Meijer in Alliance on June 11.

Police said Soud Kanan filled two carts up with 84 packs of Ensure and then went to the self-checkout where he used 20 fraudulent coupons after scanning 20 packs of drinks.

According to investigators, he failed to scan the remaining 64 packs of drinks and then loaded all 84 packs into a Penske van outside of the grocery store.

Two people have been arrested in connection with a $1,600 theft of nutrition drinks from Meijer and Marc’s grocery stores in Alliance.(Source: Alliance Police)

The total amount of merchandise stolen from the Alliance stores was $1,596.09, police said.

The Kanans have both been charged with theft, a fifth-degree felony, and were booked into the Stark County Jail.

Court records show they were released from jail on Thursday after posting $10,000 bond.

The suspects are scheduled to be arraigned in Alliance Municipal Court on Friday afternoon.

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