Over $3,000 missing from Augusta Family Dollar may have been inside job

Investigators with the Richmond County Sheriff's Office are looking into the theft over $3,000 from an Augusta Family Dollar.

On July 25, deputies were called out to Family Dollar at 825 Laney Walker Boulevard for a reported theft. An employee of the store told deputies that since May 31, an estimated $3,083 had been stolen from the store. An internal investigation by the company revealed several hundred dollars missing from some of the store's nightly deposits.

Investigators are looking into the possibility that the theft may have been an inside job.