Dep. Thomas Rickard responded to the Lusby Giant on Sept. 2, for the report of a theft.ย 

He made contact with the store theft investigator.ย  The investigator advised that he had developed a store employee as a suspect after it was learned that more than $800 was missing over a course of days in August of this year.ย 

Dep. Rickard arrested the suspect employee, identified as Horace Kelvin Smith, Jr., 20 of Lusby, and charged him with theft over $500.ย 

A search incident to arrest revealed suspected cocaine and marijuana.ย  Smith was also charged with possession of cocaine and possession of marijuana.

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