Grocery worker charged with stealing Dh34,000 worth of meat over 8 years

A grocery worker allegedly stole more than $9,000 (Dh34,000 approx) worth of deli ham over a period of eight years, sneaking up to five slices of the expensive meat a day.
The female employee was charged with theft after store bosses got a tip off about the missing meat at a Giant Eagle store in Bolivar, around 70 miles south of Cleveland, in eastern Ohio. Daily Mail quoted  Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Deputy, Brian Hale, as saying in The Columbus Dispatch that an eight-year employee of regional grocery chain was charged on Friday with stealing food estimated by the store to be worth $9,200 (£7,040).
The store's loss prevention manager received a tip off that an employee had been eating three to five slices of ham nearly every day over eight years, local media reported. While authorities said the woman mostly ate ham but sometimes indulged in salami.
She is facing potential theft charges, however, the Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Office said in a statement on Facebook that more serious 'felony charges are unlikely'. The statement said: 'While our office did take a report of the issue as requested by the store, no determination of charges has been made. The procedure is to send the report to the Prosecutor's Office and they are the ones to decide'.
The sheriff's office added that no arrests and 'no formal filing of charges' had taken place yet.