Police in one Ohio community say a group of people from Warren who traveled to their city for a day of shopping were in reality shoplifting.

To casual observers, it looked like 39-year-old Faidra Wildman, 32-year-old Nikeisha Pruit, 18-year-old Robert Travis, 30-year-old Desire Pruitt and a female juvenile were wandering through a store in a busy business district in Mentor, Ohio Wednesday afternoon.

What the group didn’t know was that they were being watched by a store loss prevention officer who says the five were taking items from the shelves and hiding those items on themselves.

The group split up from each other, either working in pairs or in a group of three as they continued to select items and conceal the merchandise, according to police. One of them would act as a lookout.

Members of the Mentor Police Retail Theft Deterrence Unit were contacted and when the group exited the store, they were stopped by uniformed and plain clothes Mentor Police Officers.

Police say Wildman, Nikeisha Pruitt, Travis and the juvenile were all concealing stolen property.

All were charged with misdemeanor theft. Desire Pruitt acted as a lookout and was charged as an accomplice according to police.

Nikeisha Pruitt is currently on parole for a previous robbery offense.