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Accused shoplifter snatches boots from Walt Whitman Mall Foot Locker

Things didn?t go according to plan for the man who snatched a pair of boots Saturday from a store at Walt Whitman Mall. Foot Locker manager Leonard Owens says he witnessed 26-year-old Christian Vitale

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