A Casa Grande man thought he’d gotten away with shoplifting after ditching a shopping cart full of stolen merchandise. 

Matthew Button, 37, walked past the registers and was almost out the door when a Fry’s Marketplace security guard stopped him around 4:17 p.m. Sept. 12, according to a probable cause statement.   

Button ran toward his vehicle and left behind a shopping cart filled with nearly $700 of merchandise, the employee said. 

Video footage captured the license plate on his blue Jeep Cherokee, which police tracked 30 minutes later heading eastbound on Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway. 

Button allegedly confessed to police the attempted theft. He was arrested and booked into Pinal County Jail on suspicion of shoplifting, a class 6 felony.