Police says that they were in the right place at the right time to arrest a shoplifter.
Officers were in Mansfield Road, Sherwood, on Wednesday (5 November) when they spotted Ailee Mullins enter a supermarket.
Mullins helped herself to food and drink and left the shop.
Officers stopped her and recovered the items from her coat pockets.
Mullins had also stolen laundry products from another shop, in Front Street, Arnold, two days earlier.
She was banned from this store under the terms of a criminal behaviour order (CBO).
Nottingham Magistrates’ Court had imposed the three-year CBO at a hearing on 10 September 2025.
Mullins, aged 41, of Wilmington Gardens, Nottingham, pleaded guilty to two shop thefts and breach of a CBO when she was returned to the same court on Thursday (6 November).
She was jailed for a total of 36 weeks.
Sergeant Alison Riley, of the Gedling North neighbourhood policing team, said:
“The officers involved spotted Mullins entering a shop and were able to detain her as she left with stolen items.
“This prison sentence will provide some respite for shop staff who have been impacted by Mullins’ persistent offending.
“Criminal behaviour orders are an effective tool for officers and we work hard to secure them for our most prolific offenders.
“Support is offered to shoplifters to help them break their cycle of offending.
“However, if they don’t engage and continue to brazenly steal and cause issues for shop staff, we will keep on locking them up.”
