WASHINGTON COUNTY, Fla. ( WMBB )— A Birmingham, Alabama man has been arrested for the July 2021 burglary of the Vernon Discount Drug Store in Washington County.
36-year-old Shelton Deante Reddick was arrested and booked into the Washington County Jail on burglary and grand theft charges.
According to authorities, on July 13, 2021, just before 9 pm WCSO received a call from a concerned citizen. The caller said Vernon Discount Drugs, 3248 Main Street, was broken into and the two subjects were exiting the store, and getting into a dark-colored car.
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The car was then witnessed driving north on Darkins Street, as they left the scene.
Officials said the subjects entered the store through the bottom door frame, ran to the back of the store, and went behind the counter. They were in and out of the store in about 40 seconds and officials said they left the store with an undisclosed number of controlled substances.
Reddick was identified and tied to the robbery through evidence found on the scene. This evidence was managed by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office Investigators and submitted to a laboratory for DNA analysis.