Suspect arrested in $4,000 alcohol heist at SLO County Vons

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a suspect in the theft of $4,000 in alcohol from a Vons store last week.

On Feb. 12, deputies arrested San Diego resident Georgian Lovesmith for allegedly stealing a cache of alcohol from the grocery store in Nipomo over the course of an hour earlier this month, the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

During the theft on Feb. 2, a man removed individual bottles from their packaging and concealed them under his clothing or stashed them in his backpack before leaving the store, only to return to the scene of the crime again and again to snatch more merchandise, according to a news release from the Sheriff’s Office…

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