PROTIP: When shoplifting from a store do not fill out a raffle ticket which asks for all your personal information

PENN VALLEY, Calif. -- A young woman caught on video stealing more than $300 in merchandise from a garden supply store may have never been identified if she hadn't pushed her luck by filling out a raffle ticket.

"A little on the not-bright side, absolutely," said Doug Jones, co-owner of Anything Green Hydroponics in Penn Valley, Calif.

Surveillance video of Friday's incident shows the young woman entering the store at 9:30 a.m. and browsing for about a half hour.

The accused shoplifter is occasionally seen ducking down between shelves and stuffing items into her handbag.

"She had a plan," said store co-owner Shela Claar, who said the woman actually left the store once to allegedly empty the handbag in her car before returning for more.

The store owners were unaware they had been ripped off until later in the day when they noticed some expensive plant nutrients and other chemicals were missing.

Claar reviewed the video and was stunned as she watched the shoplifter at work.

"We had never seen her before," Claar said.

The woman in the video might have remained anonymous if she had simply left the store without taking up the offer to enter a raffle for a promotional giveaway next month.

"She (gave us) her name, her phone number, her address. Brilliant," Claar said.

The raffle ticket led a Nevada (Calif.) County sheriff's deputy directly to Elizabeth Genevieve Null, 20, who was arrested for misdemeanor shoplifting and felony possession of stolen property.