Cigarette Seller Makes Get-Away on Bike

Source from:  islandpacket.com By Daniel Brownstein October 14, 2008 10/16/2008

A man selling half-priced cartons of cigarettes outside a south Hilton Head Island gas station pedaled away on his bicycle from an investigating deputy, according to a Beaufort County sheriff's report released Monday. An employee of Coligny Exxon, 2 Lagoon Road, called the Sheriff's Office at 4:30 p.m. Friday to report the man, whom he suspected of stealing the cigarettes earlier from the same gas station, the report said. A deputy found the 47-year-old Hilton Head man -- who is known to law enforcement -- holding up a carton of Marlboro cigarettes while riding his bike in Cordillo Courts, 104 Cordillo Courts, according to the report. With the deputy chasing him, the man rode his bike through Ocean Shore Apartments, where he got away. He is wanted for fleeing to evade arrest. Both the gas station and a nearby drug store have reported thefts of multiple cartons of cigarettes recently. Enditem