Shoplifting suspect flees store in red sedan

2/6/2026 12:08 PM

Theft

5th St SW, Charlottesville, VA 22903

Police are dispatched to a store near 5th Street Southwest for a recent shoplifting. A caller reports that a man in his thirties took canned meat and left about a minute earlier. He drove away in a red four-door Volkswagen sedan, traveling toward the light at Wawa. The man is described as wearing a blue university sweatshirt and dark jeans.