Ex-Southlake Jamba Juice manager gets 3 years’ probation for making up robbery report
A former Southlake Jamba Juice manager has been sentenced to three years of probation for making up a robbery report at the business.
Amanda Topolinski, 33, of Watauga, also was sentenced for possessing heroin at the time she made the report in February 2019.
Topolinski was sentenced Monday in Criminal District Court No. 372.
The Watauga woman was arrested in February 2019 shortly after she told Southlake police she had been robbed at gunpoint.
After they investigated the report, Southlake detectives found missing details in the manager’s story, Southlake police say.
Topolinski later admitted to fabricating the holdup because she had been accused of stealing money from the store’s safe for the last three months, according to a Southlake police Facebook post.
Topolinski was charged in October 2019 with false alarm or report and possession of a controlled substance.
Topolinski had been free on $2,500 bail since her arrest in February 2019.
Southlake police responded to the robbery call about 12:10 p.m. on Feb. 22, 2019 at Jamba Juice, 222 State St. in Southlake. The business in Southlake closed in March 2019.
Southlake police arrived within a minute and checked the area for a suspect, but they couldn’t find one.
Topolinski told Southlake police a white or Hispanic man wearing a blue jacket, jeans, a blue hat and sunglasses came into the store, brandished a gun and demanded money from the safe.
Southlake detectives began checking video footage of Southlake Town Square, and no one matching Topolinski’s description had been in Jamba Juice.
On the possession charge, the 33-year-old Watauga woman had heroin in her purse when Southlake police searched her.
