On October 29, 2026, Lacey Arnsperger (DOB: 12/10/1985), formerly of Danville, Illinois, 
pleaded guilty in 2023-CF-405 to Retail Theft, a class 3 felony. The defendant also pleaded 
guilty in 2025-CF-67 to three counts of Forgery, all class 3 felonies, and pleaded guilty in 2025-
CF-625 to Forgery, a class 3 felony. The defendant was sentenced to 6 years and 6 months in the 
Illinois Department of Corrections in each case, with all sentences to be served concurrently. 
Following her term of imprisonment, the defendant will also serve 6 months of mandatory 
supervised release. The plea and sentencing hearing were presided over by Judge Karen E. Wall.
The People presented evidence in 2023-CF-405 that on June 6, 2023, officers with the Danville 
Police Department responded to Walmart in Danville for a reported retail theft by two females in 
a red Toyota Tacoma pick-up truck. The officers identified the suspects in the truck as Lacey 
Arnsperger and Kori Spisok and the bed of the truck was full of groceries. The suspects told 
police they worked for the delivery app, Shipt. The loss prevention officer of the store explained 
to police how the Shipt app functions, and stated that the suspects had not followed the app’s
procedures, and walked out of the store without confirming their items with store employees. 
Furthermore, the suspects took alcohol items, which would require age verification by store 
employees before checking out. Officers requested to view the receipt of the transaction, but the 
suspects could not produce a receipt. The items were recovered and returned to the store, having 
a total of $576.79. Co-defendant Kori Spisok’s case is pending.
In 2025-CF-67, the People presented evidence that on December 20, 2024, January 24, 2025 and 
January 27, 2025, Danville Police received reports of four fraudulent checks that had been 
written by Lacey Arnsperger to area businesses from an invalid checking account. The defendant 
told police that her checking account was valid and that she had been using it recently. 
Detectives had previously spoken to the defendant during a previous investigation regarding the 
invalid checking account. Detectives confirmed with the credit union that the account numbers 
the defendant was using were fake. One of the businesses learned that the check was invalid and 
when the store contacted her, the defendant claimed she would provide valid payment, but never 
did.