Grocery store employees accused of lifting large amounts of meat

Four now-former Food Depot employees are looking at a felony charge after being arrested on Thursday afternoon. 

Booked at the county jail and charged with one count of felony theft by taking were Stephanie Brown (top left), listed with a Hancock County address, Samantha Collins (top right), listed with a Milledgeville address, Jesse Daniels (bottom left), listed with a Gordon address, and Garry Woodall (bottom right), listed with a Milledgeville address. 

The four are accused of stealing relatively large amounts of ribeye steaks, spare ribs, pork, soft drinks and other items early Tuesday morning. According to a Milledgeville Police Department incident report, security video showed the four "walking around the store completing their job tasks for the night...at approximately (3 a.m.), Collins and Brown began walking around the store with shopping carts and began placing items into the carts."

Added the incident report: "(The manager) stated both women took multiple items from the area by the pork and beef stations of the store. (The manager) stated while the two women walked the store, Daniels and Woodall began taking boxes from the butchers' freezers out the back of the store and placed them down."

One of the ladies then walked outside and cranked up a red pickup truck and drove it around to the rear of the building "to the loading bays." According to the incident report, "Woodall, Collins and Brown then began loading the red pickup truck full of items from the shopping carts they had filled up with store product. "(The manager) stated Woodall continued loading up the pickup truck while Collins and Brown began filling bags full of items and bringing them to the vehicle."

The threshold for "felony theft by taking" in the state of Georgia is $1,500.

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