DALLAS - A woman who allegedly danced on the counter while her partner tried to steal cigarettes from a convenience store is behind bars thanks to tips from FOX 4 viewers.

Dallas police said they started getting calls about Theresa Hutchinson just after surveillance video from a Ross Avenue 7-Eleven robbery was shown on TV.


Theresa Hutchinson

In the video a woman, seemingly strung out on drugs, gets on the counter and starts dancing while her partner stuffs cigarettes in a bag.

She continues dancing, trying to distract the clerk. But he grabs a stick to defend himself.

The woman jumps down and keeps dancing to keep the clerk away from her partner. When he doesn’t back down, she grabs a checkout scanner and swings.

Three minutes after they enter the store, the two robbers leave. But the clerk doesn’t let them take the bag of cigarettes. He wrestles to get it back and the pair gets away with nothing.

“We had several tips before 10 o’clock last night and more this morning that led us directly to this woman,” said Sr. Cpl. Janice Crowther.

Hutchinson is now charged with robbery and is behind bars at the Lew Sterrett jail.

Police are still looking for her partner and another man who was with her for a similar robbery at an Exxon store on Abrams Road.