Man tries to steal $11K from grocery store AURORA, Ill., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A man was charged with retail theft after allegedly attempting to steal $11,000 of prescription drugs and other groceries from an Illinois store, police said. Security officials at an Aurora, Ill., Meijer store said they saw David Morelock loading prescription drugs, strawberries, grapes, cashews, cheesecake, razors, whitening strips, Chee-tos and skin care lotion into bags in his cart Tuesday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Police said Morelock, 25, started to leave the store with the bags full of $11,422 worth of stolen goods but hesitated and put them back in his cart. DuPage County prosecutors said Morelock would have been charged with felony retail theft if he had taken the bags out of the store. He was charged with a misdemeanor instead. When police arrived and arrested Morelock, he allegedly told officers if he had known he was going to be arrested, he would have run from the store. Morelock, from Downers Grove, has been charged with stealing from several other Meijer stores in the area and other thefts in Chicago.