South Carolina Man Uses Unusual Method to Shoplift Steaks

Alaska Native News on Aug 17, 2015.

The girlfriend of a South Carolina man accused of shoplifting from a Food Lion market in Spartan County last week, made a rather bizarre and revolting revelation when she told police officers investigating the crime, how her boyfriend absconded with $75 worth of Rib-eye steaks.

Police were called to the South Carolina food mart last Tuesday, by employees there, when they reported that “an older white male in a yellow shirt and blue shorts” had stolen five packages of steaks from the business before driving off in a green Nissan. The store employees were able to take down the departing vehicle’s license plate number and police tracked the vehicle to one, David Samuel Hoyt, age 80.

Officers were able to locate Hoyt at his residence, who said that his son, David Earl Hoyt, age 55, had taken his Nissan and left with his girlfriend, and had gone to his girlfriend’s house, who resided “on Shaw Road down from the Church of God.”

When contacted there, the younger Hoyt initially denied stealing the steaks from the store, but soon relented and admitted to shoplifting the meat. He told the officers that he had put the meat in bags and walked out of the store.

When queried, Hoyt’s girlfriend, who police identified as Angela Woody, told the officers that Hoyt had “taken meat from Food Lion by putting it in his colostomy bag.” according to Spartanburg police.

Police did not say if the steaks were being held as evidence of Hoyt’s crime.

Hoyt was arrested for shoplifting and remanded to the county jail with his bail set at $2,130.

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