Shoplifter bolts from Family Dollar in Macon with haul of boxer briefs, deputies say
It was after 8 o’clock on a recent Saturday night when a guy in a “Trap House” T-shirt and faded jeans went into a Family Dollar on Houston Avenue in Macon and asked a clerk for some help. The guy said his wife had given him a $200 gift card to use at the store and that he needed to buy a bunch of underwear. The clerk, according to a Bibb County sheriff’s report on Jan. 11, accompanied the guy as he picked out an assortment of undergarments that included Hanes-brand tagless briefs, boxer briefs, T-shirts and an “unknown” amount of deodorant. The clerk returned to her other duties and it wasn’t long before she saw the guy take off running with a basket of merchandise. A similar alleged shoplifting spree happened a week later at a Dollar General on Emery Highway in east Macon. A sheriff’s report of that incident said a clerk noticed a woman walk in, fill a shopping basket with about $100 worth of clothes and slip away without paying. As she was leaving, headed toward a red Ford Fiesta getaway car, the sheriffs’ write-up noted that as she passed the clerk, the thief told him, “Come get it.”
Dispatches: A sheriff’s report of another shoplifting incident, this one at a Dollar General on Bloomfield Road in west Macon on Jan. 20, said a man grabbed a 24-roll pack of toilet paper and ran off without paying. . . . A woman who lives on Sheraton Drive returned home to her apartment Jan. 19 after going out of town to find that someone had stolen, among other belongings, her 55-inch TV and her air fryer. . . . A Milledgeville woman was caught stealing clothes at a self-checkout at Walmart on Zebulon Road in Macon the morning of Jan. 18, a sheriff’s report said. The woman, 39, could allegedly be seen in surveillance footage placing her finger over bar codes of some of the items she was pretending to scan. She reportedly paid for about $25 worth of clothing but tried to leave with $57 worth. While watching the video footage with a sheriff’s deputy, the woman fessed up, the report said, telling the deputy, “I’m going to be honest. I was only trying to be sneaky with four of the items.”