OCALA, Fla. – A woman busted for allegedly stealing from Walmart is facing drug felonies for the first time, but she has a series of arrests in other situations.
“Loss prevention officers attempted to detain” Jessi Nicole Icenhower “for concealing merchandise” and trying to leave the store, her arrest report from Sept. 21 in Florida said.
Police intervened, with an officer explaining “to Icenhower she needed to return,” but, “She continued to state that she needed to talk to her friend outside of the business.
“[The officer] grabbed her right arm while [a sergeant] grabbed her left arm. Icenhower continued to pull away, even after being directed by personnel to stop. Icenhower was placed in handcuffs and escorted to the loss prevention office.”
The Walmart employee, “who was surveilling Icenhower via CCTV camera,” said she “selected two shirts and removed the tag off one shirt. Icenhower then concealed the shirts in her purse and attempted to exit the garden exit, passing all points of sale and make no attempt to pay for the shirts in her purse.
“[The employee] contacted Icenhower, identified herself, and she refused to return to the office. The shirts were recovered for a loss of $29.96.”
Then, the arrest report said, the sergeant “conducted a search incident to arrest of Icenhower,” and this is when her situation became a lot more serious.
“In her front left shorts pocket,” the report said, “a plastic baggie with a greenish powdery substance was located. Icenhower muttered it was ‘MDMA.’ This baggie later field-tested presumptive positive for fentanyl.
“Another plastic baggie with a crystal-like substance was in the same pocket. The contents field-tested presumptively positive for methamphetamine.
Authorities said Icenhower told them “she was not trying to steal the shirts; she just needed to go outside to get money from her friend to pay for the shirts. She advised she is not aware what the drugs were, as the shorts that she was wearing do not belong to her. It should be noted, the shorts that she was wearing were a perfect size for her.”
Icenhower’s other arrests in Marion County go back to at least 2012, when she was convicted of criminal mischief. After that came nine arrests in the past five years, though she was not convicted of all the charges she faced.
Her arrest report from July 13, 2020, said she violated “her pre-trial release bond conditions [that] were in place due to her domestic violence arrest on 06/29/2020.”
According to the next few arrest reports, the victim in that case from two weeks earlier was her boyfriend, who was also her landlord, and he was evicting her from a camper behind his home.
“He returned to the listed residence,” the July 13 report said, “and observed the defendant in the bedroom, lying on the bed. She then cursed him and fled.”
One of the “special conditions” of the pre-trial release order she’d signed was to “not come within one mile of the premises.”
Apparently, Icenhower hadn’t learned her lesson.
She faced the same charge less than a month later, on Aug. 6, when a sheriff’s deputy reported seeing her and her boyfriend, but prosecutors didn’t pursue the case.
Icenhower faced the same charge a third time, on Aug. 24, after “a domestic disturbance” at the home. “Two parties on scene” reported she “had a verbal altercation with her boyfriend,” the arrest report said. He denied she was there, but his mother and a neighbor had a different story.
Then, two years passed but the situation stayed the same.
Her arrest report from Nov. 20, 2022, said she told authorities “her boyfriend’s mother [name] pushed her,” and it happened at the home where she lives “by herself, due to her boyfriend being in jail.” The skirmish was over dirty dishes and a trash can. Then, “a computer check revealed” Icenhower was not supposed to be there, so she was arrested for trespassing.
Prosecutors did not pursue charges of grand theft and burglary against Icenhower, who was in jail, after a complaint the very next day, on Nov. 21. Her boyfriend’s mother told authorities her jailed son “got a bad feeling” and asked his mom “to check his bank account, and it was discovered $2,000 was missing from his account.”
She also blamed Icenhower when claiming “a gold chain with an ‘air boat’ charm and a black iPhone cell phone” were missing from an envelope in a bedroom, “and when arrested, she was wearing the victim’s necklace.”
The arrest report said those items were found in Icenhower’s “property box” in jail, but Icenhower claimed “the chain was given to her,” her boyfriend “gave her permission to use the cell phone,” and “the victims were lying to get her into trouble.”
Icenhower would remain in jail for two months. Her boyfriend has 15 mugshots in Marion County between June 2010 and July 2024.
She had traffic trouble that led to jail over the summer of 2023. Icenhower was pulled over on July 14 and convicted in the fall of driving with a suspended license. Prosecutors dropped a charge of failure to register a motor vehicle.
But Icenhower was “recognized” when she was pulled over 11 days later, on July 25.
The arrest report said the SUV she was driving had a license plate registered to a pickup truck. Also, her license “had been suspended since 12/20/2021,” and “an open container of Seagram’s Escapes Spiked alcoholic beverage was discovered, which was still cold and approximately half full.”
The report said she admitted “the alcoholic beverage was hers, and she had just opened it. The defendant had no signs of impairment.” Icenhower spent five days in jail. She was convicted of the driver’s license charge, and prosecutors decided not to pursue the registration and license plate issues. It’s not clear how the open container accusation was resolved.
The recent Walmart incident has not been resolved.
Icenhower, 34, was charged with possession of fentanyl, possession of methamphetamine, retail theft, and resisting without violence.
UPDATE: She was released on Oct. 31, when her bond was reduced from $13,000 to $8,000.
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