Main Street clothing store fiasco arises

A dispute between clothing store boutique owners on Main Street is far from wrapping up.

A year ago, Vince Sizemore, former co-owner of The Stitches Boutique, was accused of stealing store merchandise from his former business partner, Kellie Campayno, before he opened a new store across the street, which was named The Original Stitch Boutique. Sizemore has now been accused of stealing clothing from the new store and his new co-owner, Jackie Daniels.

In August 2011, a Sarasota Police incident report stated that The Stitches Boutique co-owners, Sizemore and Campayno, were involved in a civil dispute regarding $40,000 worth of merchandise that was allegedly stolen from the store.

Sizemore alleged in the report that he arrived at the store last summer to find “all the property in the store was gone.”

Sizemore first reported that an unknown person must have robbed the store, but police pressed the issue after it was discovered the store was not broken into and that a key was used to enter the clothing boutique.

The report states that minutes later, Sizemore admitted to having “a problem with his partner” and explained he was trying to “buy out co-owner Kellie Campayno’s half” of the business for several months. The report also stated Sizemore had to step outside with his attorney before discussing the mater further.

Since that incident report, Campayno filed a lawsuit against Sizemore and V&K Enterprises Inc., seeking damages in court and claiming that Sizemore failed to divulge he was months behind on the store’s rent and in debt before she had agreed to buy out his former business partner’s 50% share of The Stitches Boutique. She had subsequently loaned the company $63,000.

In the Sept. 30, 2011, complaint, Campayno alleges the store was more than $6,000 behind in rent, clothing vendors were seeking thousands of dollars from Sizemore and inventory she was led to believe was worth $70,000 was only worth $7,000.

Sizemore denies the allegations and filed a counter suit seeking damages from Campayno. Sizemore claims Campayno stole the store’s merchandise, used a company credit card to pay for merchandise sent to her home and stole money from the company’s bank account.

In the meantime, Campayno took over the store’s space at 1463 Main St. and started a new clothing boutique called Bohemian Bliss Boutique.

Sizemore, meanwhile, acquired a new business partner, Daniels, and opened The Original Stitch Boutique, which sits directly across the street from Campayno’s store.

Campayno proceeded to file a motion to disqualify Sizemore’s Sarasota attorney, Brandon Daniels, as counsel in the lawsuit. She claims Sizemore bartered $3,500 worth of store clothing to Daniels for counsel payment in a driving-under-the-influence case and transferred the rest of the store’s clothing to Daniels once Sizemore stole it from the store.

Jackie Daniels is Brandon Daniels’ wife.

The civil lawsuit is still pending and challenges the use of the name The Original Stitch Boutique; the store’s name has now been changed to Jackie Z.

Last week, Jackie Daniels’ mother reported to police that Sizemore was seen walking out of the store on three different occasions with his arms full of Jackie Z store clothing. The store’s video cameras were deleted, and an inventory revealed that since November, 235 pieces of clothing went missing. Sizemore is also alleged to have overdrafted Jackie Daniels’ bank account by $1,171.77. The report states Sizemore has not been located since the incident was reported to have occurred Aug. 10.

Calls to all affected parties regarding this story were not returned.