Grocery Store Employee Spots Shoplifter Stuffing Meat into Pants

An employee of Bell's Food Store on Hog Mountain Road told Oconee County Sheriff's deputies this week that he witnessed a man stuffing ribs from the meat counter into his pants.

Deputies were called to the store just before 9 p.m. on April 3 but the suspect had already left and fled in a white Ford Ranger.   The case is listed as active.

On the same day around the same time across town at Walmart on Epps Bridge Parkway, a security guard called deputies after he says he witnessed another man attempt to steal a fountain drink and a small sack of chicken wings from the deli section of the store by placing it into a plastic bag.  The food was worth about $5.

In that case, a 23-year-old Lawrenceville man was arrested and charged with misdemeanor theft by shoplifting.

Earlier in the day a security guard at Kohl's reported a woman concealed in a purse eight pieces of clothes valued at $160 and walked out of the store without paying for the items.  When approached, the guard said the woman fled in a tan Kia Spectra without a tag.

The suspect is described as white, 5'6" tall, 160 pounds and about 20 years old.  Investigators are reviewing video surveillance.

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