'I was too broke to buy the chemicals': Woman caught making meth inside Walmart



Elizabeth Alisha Greta Halfmoon, 45, was arrested for endeavoring to manufacture meth

A woman was arrested after she was caught stealing and mixing the chemicals needed to make meth inside a Walmart because she was 'too broke to buy it'.

Elizabeth Alisha Greta Halfmoon, 45, from Tulsa, also known to go by Alisha Halfmoon, was arrested for endeavoring to manufacture meth at the 81st and Lewis store.

Surveillance footage shows Halfmoon entering the store at noon. When security officers noticed she was still there six hours later and acting suspiciously, they called police.

Responding officer David Shelby told Fox 23 that Halfmoon said she was too broke to buy the chemicals and so had to mix them in store.

He said: 'She didn’t have the money to make the purchases of the chemicals that were needed so she was taking what was needed in the bottle.

'When I saw her she had just finished mixing sulfuric acid with starter fluid in a bottle.'

Customers were horrified when they heard what happened while they were trying to do their shopping.

Jessica Fuentes, who was with her one-year-old son, was in tears when she found out and told Fox: 'This is a family store. People need to start thinking. If she has family she needs to think about her family.



'If you are broke go out and get a job. It’s just wrong.'

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Location: The Walmart at the 81st and Lewis store in Tulsa where Halfmoon was arrested Police: Officer David Shelby said the woman told them she was too broke to buy the chemicals and make it outside

They immediately removed the 45-year-old and the mixture she had made from the building.



No one was evacuated but an officer did receive burns to his hands after the mixture burned through his gloves when he was handling the meth.

Officer Shelby said: 'When firefighters were on the scene she made statements to them that is what she was doing, she was attempting to obtain these chemicals and was in the process of trying to manufacture meth. However, she said she was not very good at it.'



It was only last month that Halfmoon was arrested in a meth-manufacturing sting, on November 6. She was released just two days before she was arrested again in Walmart.

She has received a deferred sentence and is bonded out on $7,500.

