3 women charged with stealing from Nike store in Naperville

Three Chicago women have been charged with stealing clothing from the Nike Well Collective store in downtown Naperville.

For one of them, it is the second time in a year she has been accused of stealing from the store.

Emiaya Shannon, 27, of the 300 block of West 42nd Street; Shawanda Outlaw, 28, of the 3700 block of South Indiana Avenue; and Martasia Barney, 27, of the 3500 block of South Rhodes Avenue, are charged with felony burglary and felony retail theft.

Barney is also charged with misdemeanor fleeing and eluding.

Shannon and Barney were released after a first-appearance court hearing on Thursday. Outlaw is being held because she has outstanding arrest warrants on retail theft cases in Will and Cook counties, according to DuPage County court records.

The charges accuse Shannon and Outlaw of entering the store, located at 217 S. Main St., around 4:20 p.m. Wednesday. They took about 20 items of clothing worth more than $300 and left the store, according to the charges. They then got in a car driven by Barney.

When a Naperville police officer tried to stop the car, Barney continued to drive.

The car was tracked to Chicago with aid from a Chicago Police Department helicopter, according to a press release from the DuPage County state’s attorney’s office. Woodridge and Willowbrook police were also involved, according to the release.

Outlaw was also processed Wednesday on arrest warrants in two 2024 DuPage County cases, in which she was accused of felony retail theft and felony burglary. In one, she is accused of stealing items from an Ulta beauty supplies store in November 2023 in Naperville. In the other, she is accused of stealing items from the Nike store in 2024, according to court records.

Shannon was charged in 2020 in DuPage with burglary and retail theft at an Ulta store in Wheaton and a Kohl’s in Elmhurst, in a case where a co-defendant crashed into a police car after a pursuit.