Doris Payne shown [photo], after her December 2016 arrest on a charge of theft by shoplifting jewelry.

A store employee notified a Chamblee officer who was working in the store that Payne was shoplifting about 5 p.m., police said in the report.
The employee told the officer that Payne grabbed items from the pharmacy, electronics and grocery departments, put them in a shopping cart and concealed some of them in her purse as well as a Walmart shopping bag.
According to the report, Payne went to a checkout line, pulled more goods from the shopping cart and tried to hide them, too. All of the items were eventually returned to the store and Payne was arrested on a charge of theft by shoplifting, police said.
Doris Payne, an international jewel thief who’s stolen about $2 million worth over the last six decades, says she tried to do right this time.
The 86-year-old faces a bench warrant after missing a court date in DeKalb County on Monday. She told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution she wasn’t able to go because of health issues.
“I ain’t runnin’,” she said in a phone interview. “Medically, I was not able to go.”
She’s been dealing with severe pain, trouble with balance and draining tests related to a lump in her neck.
“It might be cancerous. It may not,” she said.
Curiously when Payne was arrested last December for concealing a $2,000 necklace in her back pocket and attempted to exit a store at a mall in Von Maur,” She was taken to the Chamblee jail, where police discovered she was wearing an electronic ankle monitor. She was released after posting her $15,000 bail.