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Pot-Smoking Newlyweds Shoplift Food for Their Own Wedding Reception

Pot-Smoking Newlyweds Shoplift Food for Their Own Wedding Reception

They loaded the shopping cart and just walked out of the store.

CENTRE HALL, Pa. (The Blaze/AP) -- A couple of Pennsylvania newlyweds are behind bars after police say they were caught shoplifting food from a supermarket for their wedding reception.

The Centre Daily Times reports 32-year-old Arthur Phillips III and his bride, 22-year-old Brittany Lurch, were arrested Saturday after taking more than $1,000 in merchandise from a Wegmans supermarket in State College.

Patton Township police say the couple was captured on surveillance footage loading a shopping cart and leaving the store without paying.

The Centre Daily Times report says the Centre Hall couple admitted taking the items when arrested. Police say the newlyweds told officers they'd been married a couple days earlier and took the food for their wedding reception that afternoon.

The Times also reports that police said they found a glass smoking pipe with marijuana residue in the couple’s car. Philips was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.

They are charged with misdemeanor counts and are being held on $2,500 bail.

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