Overview
- Doral Police identified the suspect as Luis Felipe Lezcano, 63, accused of using a barcode‑switching trick to underpay at self-checkout.
- Store management and police say the technique was used more than 35 times, resulting in thousands of dollars in losses.
- Officers arrested Lezcano on January 14 as he exited a Walmart on the 8000 block of Northwest 13th Terrace with unpaid items, according to the arrest report.
- He faces one count of petit theft as investigators review surveillance footage of earlier incidents for potential further charges.
- Chief Edwin Lopez said high-resolution cameras captured the method clearly and warned that technology increases the likelihood of being caught.