Circuit Court arraignment is scheduled later this month for a St. Joseph woman accused of trying to bite her way out of a shoplifting arrest. Now Catherine Wells is charged with 2nd degree robbery, a Class-B felony.

In court documents, officials say Wells was confronted with “concealed unpaid items of clothing” outside the JC Penney store at the East Hills Shopping Center by the store’s loss-prevention officer. According to the probable cause affidavit, she “tried to bite the loss-prevention officer and flee the scene.”

Wells waived her preliminary hearing this week and was bound over for trial. She is no longer in custody after posting a $10,000 bail bond. She is scheduled for arraignment September 29 before Circuit Judge Daniel Kellogg.