MOUNT STERLING, Ky. (AP) -- Broken Arrow police said two people were arrested after an 80-year-old Walmart employee in Kentucky was pepper-sprayed during a robbery.
The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that Mount Sterling police said in a Facebook post that a man shoplifted several items from the store and pepper-sprayed the woman when she tried to stop him on Saturday.
The Facebook post includes photos of the man and a woman accused of being an accomplice and providing the pepper spray before they entered the store.
Police say the two suspects left in a maroon minivan with Oklahoma plates.
Michael Jude, 35, and Sandra Yeahquo, 36, were arrested a little after noon on Wednesday in the 2700 block of West Ocala Street in Broken Arrow.
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