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An employee at a Sears store in St. Paul, Minn., spotted a man leaving the store. What caught the employee’s attention was the clothes that the man dropped — from under his own clothes, according to the criminal complaint. When the employee confronted the man, he allegedly pulled out a knife and said “Don’t touch me,” then fled the scene. The staff then found the items the man had left in the store’s dressing room: a warrant of commitment showing that Alphonso Whitelaw, 32, had received a stayed sentence for theft that morning, and a letter to his wife promising he would soon put a ring on her finger. The new charge isn’t shoplifting, but first-degree aggravated robbery and second-degree assault — because he pulled the knife. (MS/St. Paul Pioneer-Press) ...Thankfully they caught up with him before he got to the jewelry store to get his wife’s ring.