Thief at Macon auto parts store stashes power inverter in pants

The shoplifting suspect was described as having dreadlocks worn in a “man-bun.” A Bibb sheriff’s deputy who was dispatched to the O’Reilly Auto Parts store on Pio Nono Avenue in Macon on April 7 was told that the thief had stolen merchandise from the place before. A couple of days earlier he reportedly made off with a 120-piece tool set. This time, the shoplifter grabbed an $82 power inverter and crammed it in his pants. An employee stopped the man at the front door and told him to put the item back. The thief refused. According to an incident report, the employee “could hear the plastic that the power inverter was in moving around” in the culprit’s pants as he walked out the door.

Dispatches: Three teenage girls were jailed for allegedly munching their way through a Macon supermarket. A sheriff’s report said the girls took candy and were “consuming different items” on various aisles at the Pio Nono Avenue Kroger on March 31. A store security man told a sheriff’s deputy that one of the girls hid some water balloons in her purse. … On March 20, a guy who lives on Davis Street near Freedom Park in Macon was in his front yard working on a Honda Enduro motorbike. He told the cops that four guys in a pickup stopped and asked if the motorbike was for sale. Yes, the guy told them. One fellow asked if he could take it for a test drive. Sure, the owner said, and away the stranger rode, never to return. … On March 22, a 29-year-old Macon woman parked her Chevrolet Equinox in front of a Beech Avenue church and went inside. While she was in the church, which sits a block south of Central High School, someone opened one of her SUV’s back doors and stole her son’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle headphones. … A man on Griffin Road just north of the Middle Georgia Regional Airport in south Bibb County called the cops April 1 because someone slashed the tires on his Jeep Wrangler. He was on his way to work when he realized two tires were flat. According to a deputy’s write-up, the man, 38, thinks the culprit was his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend.

This story was originally published April 28, 2016 at 8:00 PM with the headline "Thief at Macon auto parts store stashes power inverter in pants."