A 26-year-old Chattooga County, Georgia man was recently arrested, just after a theft investigation by the Summerville Police Department. 

According to reports from the police department, Joseph Walton Parker of a Back Penn Road address stands accused of going into Marvin’s home improvement store – and purchasing more than $7,000 worth of tools on the account of his former employer.   Those purchases took place over a period of several months – all the way back to August last year – when Parker was terminated. 

Parker was apparently pawning the tools at a local pawn shop, according to police. 

 Parker was booked into the Chattooga County Jail on Friday of last week, on charges of theft by deception and forgery.

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