BUTLER TWP — Another Walmart store in Butler County has been identified as the victim of an alleged multistate refund theft scheme.

Butler Township police obtained a felony arrest warrant last week for Breon R. Williams, 25, of Hazelwood, Mo. The suspected con netted more than $5,000.

She is charged with theft by deception and receiving stolen property.

Cranberry Township police have had their own arrest warrant for Williams since September.

Authorities said she has been identified as committing similar crimes last year at Walmarts in four other states as far west as Colorado.

She was arrested Aug. 20, 2018, after attempting a related theft at a Walmart in Manhattan, Kan. It was not immediately known if she is jailed.

The method of Williams' alleged scam recently came to light in Butler Township police's April 12 criminal complaint against her. Surveillance video, said Detective Sgt. David Fish, showed the crime play out.

The defendant appeared at the Walmart at the Butler Commons shopping center on June 10, 2018, and walked into the site-to-store desk. The suspect removed a letter from her purse and placed it on the keyboard of the desk computer, apparently without anyone noticing.

The next step, police said, was a stop at the customer service desk to request the person in charge. Williams subsequently told the assistant manager of a problem she had with an online order for a television and its warranty plan.

“She advised that she spoke to the store manager, who was supposed to have left a note on how to refund her money,” according to Fish's affidavit.

The suspect and assistant manager walked to the site-to-store desk, where the employee found the letter that Williams left behind moments earlier.

The purported letter from the manager, charging documents said, instructed store employees to refund “Mr. and Mrs. Williams” for the purchase of the TV, warranty plan and tax, totaling $5,469.50.

The assistant manager, who believed the letter to be authentic, paid out the fraudulent refund — in currency.

A day earlier, Fish said, the defendant conducted a “near identical” scheme at the Walmart in Cranberry Township. The amount she allegedly acquired during that scam was exactly the same as the one in Butler Township. Cranberry police obtained an arrest warrant Sept. 25 for Williams on felony charges of theft by deception and receiving stolen property.

Fish said he recently learned that between Aug. 13 and 20, 2018, she also carried out or tried to carry out similar thefts at other Walmarts, including three in Kansas, two in Nebraska, and one each in South Dakota and Colorado.