Macon cop cracks case of shoplifted Coors Lights

A clerk at a neighborhood food mart in south Macon said an alleged beer thief was also a regular customer. That was the suspect’s first mistake. The pilferer’s next problem was that the clerk knew where he lives — near the store on Rice Mill Road just off Pio Nono Avenue. On the evening of April 11, when the clerk saw the suspect, a 52-year-old man, slip out without paying for four 16-ounce Coors Lights, the clerk called the police. When a Bibb County sheriff’s deputy arrived, the clerk pointed the officer to the man’s house. Sure enough, when the deputy went there, as he later noted in his report, there were three men “sitting on the front porch drinking beer.” The trio went inside, but when the deputy walked up to the door two men walked outside. The third, the suspect, stayed in the house. “I then stepped just inside the door and he came out of the kitchen. … I told him why I was there and he said he had the money to pay for the beer.” The deputy took the guy back to the store, and on the way the guy said, “Yeah, I took some beer,” adding that he hoped the clerk would now “just let me pay for it.” The clerk wouldn’t hear of it, though, and the suspect was taken to jail.

This story was originally published April 26, 2016 at 8:00 PM with the headline "Macon cop cracks case of shoplifted Coors Lights."