Walmart employees robbed store to pay for car and sex change

Prescott police arrested two Walmart employees on felony charges including burglary. Detectives investigating the incident determined Spencer Danger Cullen, 23, of Prescott, conspired with Adriano Valdes Altiveros III, a 19-year-old Prescott man, over the course of numerous days to commit the burglary, Reinhardt said. At 2:30 a.m. on Thursday, officers answered a call about a burglary at the Walmart on Gail Gardner Way in Prescott.

"Through investigation and surveillance video, detectives determined that a key was used to enter a locked cash office where $45,000 in cash had been removed," Reinhardt said. "Altiveros distracted cashiers in the front of the cash office when Cullen went inside the office to remove the cash," Reinhardt said. "Cullen then gave Altiveros the cash."



Under questioning, Altiveros reportedly told detectives he stole cash from the store the day before to buy a car, and Cullen "told detectives the reason she stole the money was to go forward with a sex change operation," said Lt. Andy Reinhardt, Prescott Police Department spokesman. Reinhardt said the two suspects had allegedly spoken about how to divide the money before the burglary and had agreed that they would split the cash evenly.

"Detectives did not recover all the cash because the suspects had used some of the money to buy numerous clothing items found at the homes and a Toyota Supra for $22,000," Reinhardt said. "Altiveros had negotiated a price before the burglary with a seller out of the Phoenix metro area." Between the cash recovered and the purchases found onsite, detectives were able to account for all of the stolen money within 31 cents, Reinhardt said. An officer booked Cullen and Altiveros into the Yavapai County Jail in Camp Verde on felony charges of burglary and theft, Reinhardt said.