Giant Eagle Employee Accused Of Eating $9,200 Worth Of Deli Meat [View all]

BOLIVAR, Ohio (AP) – This case could be one of "thinly sliced larceny," but whether charges emerge remains to be seen. A loss-prevention manager at a Giant Eagle supermarket in Bolivar, Ohio, recently received an odd tip about a longtime employee at the deli counter: She was accused of noshing on up to five slices of ham every day, though she occasionally was believed to have switched things up with salami.

The store estimated she'd scarfed down about $9,200 worth of deli meat, and the Canton Repository reports she admitted on Friday to the illicit snacking.

But a Facebook post from the Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Office notes that rumors of charges for felony theft on the "small amounts of lunch meat" allegedly devoured each time are, at the very least, premature:

"No determination of charges has been made. The procedure is to send the report to the Prosecutor's Office and they are the ones to decide."