A late-night trip to a

local grocery store led to the arrest of four people on a

variety of charges that originated with a carton of

cigarettes.

According to reports,

police were called to the Kroger in Kedron Village at

about 11 p.m. last Wednesday by the acting manager, who

had apprehended a man attempting to take cigarettes

without paying for them. The manager told police that he

had grabbed the man as he tried to get into a waiting car

outside the store, and a woman with him got into the car

as it sped away.

Officers found a syringe

with a clear fluid in the suspect's coat pocket, which

the man said he used for heroin and cocaine, the report

stated. With no identification on his person, he gave

police two separate names at different times that both

proved to be fictitious, police said.

After being alerted by

Peachtree City police, Tyrone officers found the getaway

car at the Wendell Coffee golf facility and took the

other participants into custody. Shana McLester, George

Kirtis and Aric Goodar were charged with being party to a

crime and taken to Fayette County Jail.

The first suspect, who gave

his name as Mark Johnson and then as Mark Jones, was

booked as John Doe due to lack of ID and charged with

theft by shoplifting. Fingerprints later identified him

as Derrick Andrew Davis, 34, who was wanted in Walton

County for a probation violation on a heroin possession

charge and also in Clayton County on a shoplifting

charge.

Davis was charged in

Peachtree City with obstruction of a police officer and

giving a false name and date of birth, in addition to

shoplifting.