Century Man Charged With Stealing Makeup, Drug Possession

April 29, 2014

A Century man was jailed for allegedly stealing a large quantity of makeup from Walmart and for drug possession after losing his truck on Pensacola Beach.

Eric James Grimes, age 23 of Highway 168, was charged with possession of  crack cocaine with the intent to sell, manufacture or deliver, and methamphetamine possession with intent to sell, manufacture or deliver and was arrested on an outstanding felony grand theft warrant.

Saturday, a deputy in the Casino Beach parking lot stopped to assist Grimes, who seemed to be lost. Grimes told the deputy he’d lost his yellow Nissan truck, and began to act nervously, according to an arrest report, telling the deputy that he had an outstanding grand theft warrant for his arrest.

As he was taken into custody, deputies reported that  they located plastic bags of crack cocaine and a sandwich bag containing a “significant” quantity of methamphetamine on Grimes’ person.

The  grand theft warrant stemmed from a March 5 incident at Walmart on Mobile Highway. Grimes was positively identified from a photo lineup as the man a store loss prevention officer said he observed in the cosmetics department taking large quantities of expensive cosmetics, concealing them in his jacket and exiting the store.

Grimes was released from the Escambia County Jail on a $20,000 bond.

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under News