Mother and daughter caught stealing merchandise worth more than $1,000 from Gurnee store, prosecutors say.

Prosecutors say a mother and daughter, both released on retail theft charges, were caught stealing merchandise worth more than $1,000 from a Gurnee store.

The Gurnee Police Department was dispatched Saturday to Walmart, 6590 Grand Avenue, for a report of a retail theft.

Loss Prevention took two women into custody before officers arrived, according to Deputy Lake County Prosecutor Dino Katris.

The suspects were identified as Violeta Guzman-Garcia, 40, of Waukegan, and Mextli Y. Diaz-Guzman, 22, of Waukegan.

Katris said Guzman-Garcia and Diaz-Guzman, who are mother and daughter, both took shopping carts and loaded them with merchandise.

They went to the self-checkout and paid for $138 worth of merchandise without scanning more than $1,000 worth of merchandise, Katris said. The incident was filmed.

Guzman-Garcia was on probation after being convicted of stealing more than $1,000 worth of merchandise from Macy’s in Gurnee in January. Diaz-Guzman was on bail for the same incident.

Guzman-Garcia pleaded guilty to reduced misdemeanor charges in April and was ordered to have no contact with Macy’s, Katris said.

A motion to revoke her probation was filed in that case after she and her daughter were arrested for stealing $2,300 worth of merchandise from Macy’s in Vernon Hills on May 22, Katris said.

Katris said Guzman-Garcia then committed a retail theft of more than $900 at Target in Gurnee on July 30.

Guzman-Garcia was released on pretrial conditions and then re-arrested for the Gurnee Walmart retail theft this month.

“This defendant is living her best life while on bail and under court supervision. She steals anything she wants from businesses in our community,” Katris said.

The Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office has filed motions to revoke the pretrial release of both defendants.

The motions were granted by Lake County Judge Theodore Potkonjak during hearings held Tuesday afternoon.

The judge called Guzman-Garcia’s actions premeditated and called her a “professional thief.”

Both women remain in custody at the Lake County Jail and are expected to appear in court again next month.