Police in Daytona Beach, Florida, are looking for a shoplifter who managed to escape a department store after being caught red-handed stuffing four pairs of shoes into his pants. Surveillance camera footage that aired on WLTX-TV shows the African-American male suspect repeatedly slicing off theft-detection devices before shoving the footwear under his waistband.

When confronted by an employee in the parking lot, he reportedly threatened him with the cutting tool until a getaway car could whisk the suspect away.