An employee is in custody after admitting to stealing $6,000 from Linda’s Produce on Ringgold Road on Wednesday, according to Stan Allen, the assistant chief of the East Ridge Police Department.
The reporting party said that Devon Loftin had gone into the office area in the morning to use the restroom, and left the business immediately after. The reporting party then checked the office after Loftin left and found that a bank deposit bag containing the $6,000 was missing.
An East Ridge officer was able to recover $5,800 from Loftin’s mother.
Loftin admitted he took the money. He was arrested for burglary and remains in the Hamilton County Jail under a $10,000 bond.