Police were called to a Kroger store shortly after 1am on Thursday on a report a store security guard was chasing a man who stole food items, police said. The officer saw the chase and pulled into a parking lot in an attempt to cut off the man being pursued, but the suspect changed directions. The security guard tackled Webb to the ground and the officer placed him in handcuffs, and when the officer turned the man over a package of chicken nuggets fell out of his shirt. When the officer asked Webb if he had identification, police said, the suspect responded, “It doesn’t matter, they’re going to kill me anyway.”
The officer assured the man that no one was going to kill him, but Webb “continued to babble on about how an unidentifiable mob was going to kill him,” according to the arrest report. “Mr. Webb also stated that these same individuals made him steal from Kroger.” When Webb was searched, he was found to have stolen deodorant in his jacket pocket and two large blocks of cheese in his pants pockets, police said. As he was stood up, two packages of link sausages fell from his pants.
Webb repeatedly refused to identify himself, but one of the backup officers who arrived recognized him from a prior incident. Webb has a history of theft arrests, according to Clarke County Superior Court records, and last year was sentenced to five years on probation for stealing liquor from a package store then trying to punch a police officer. While in the back of a patrol car on the ride to the Clarke County Jail, Webb asked the officer to kill him, “which I refused to do,” the officer wrote in his report. Webb was charged with theft by shoplifting and obstruction of a law enforcement officer.
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