Former local 4 reporter Suzanne Wangler was arraigned Tuesday on charges that she intended to shoplift a cart full of food from a market on Woodward Avenue.

Wangler's attorney said in a statement that the Royal Oak resident is innocent. He said police never found any evidence of the groceries in her car and the store admits she never took anything.

On Nov. 11, employees at the Westborn Market, 27659 Woodward Ave., said they spotted a woman wheeling a shopping cart filled with more than $600 of merchandise out of the store without paying for it around 6:30 p.m.

Employees told police that the same woman had been at the store on previous occasions trying to take merchandise from the market in Berkley, according to the Daily Tribune.

Employees said the woman fled in an SUV, leaving the parking lot with the headlights of the vehicle turned off as she traveled south on Woodward, the newspaper reported. Employees were able to get the license plate number and police tracked the 1996 gold Lexus SUV to Wangler's address.

"Ms. Wangler is a longtime, upstanding citizen of Oakland County and we plan to establish her innocence on the allegations," said her attorney, Joseph Cross, in a statement to Local 4.

She is charged with retail fraud, which carries a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $2,000 fine. She was released on a $1,000 bond and was instructed by district court judge William R. Sauer to have no contact with Westborn Market or its employees. She will appear in court on Dec. 6.

Wangler left WDIV in April 2000.