A Dawson Police
officer who also worked part-time for Warwick, was booked into
the Dougherty County jail Thursday night, accused of stealing from
Sears in the Albany Mall, and it's not his first arrest.
42-year-old
Lt. Marcus LeMacks resigned his Warwick post Friday afternoon, and
remains suspended in Dawson.
LeMacks worked
part-time at Sears. Store loss prevention officers investigated him for two
months before Albany Police arrested him a little before 5:30 p.m.
They say surveillance
video shows LeMacks taking items from the store and putting them in his
vehicle. Investigators believe he stole about $1,200 worth of merchandise.
They plan to search his home to try to recover items.
Dawson Police Charlie
Whitehead says officer Marcus LeMacks has been suspended without pay until his
legal case is adjudicated, and he has been notified of his suspension.
Chief Whitehead added
that LeMacks' POST certification had just come off probation in June, after his
misdemeanor conviction of supplying alcohol to minors. In
2009 LeMacks was fired from the Leesburg Police Department after being
charged with providing alcohol to people under age 21.
Chief Whitehead says
LeMacks has been employed by the Dawson Police Department since 2009.