Hamilton man suspect in multi-county fishing lure thefts

A Hamilton man accused of stealing more than $1,000 in fishing lures from the Lebanon WalMart remained in the Middletown jail on Monday.

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Derrick E. Marcum Jr. , 27, was indicted in Warren County on a theft charge alleging he took all the lures in the store and tried to conceal them in a storage container he scanned in the self-service checkout line on Oct. 20, according to Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell.

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He was charged on Nov. 9 in Lebanon Municipal Court.

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Marcum is under investigation “for doing the exact same thing” in Hamilton and Butler counties, according to Fornshell.

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Marcum was being held in the Middletown jail and is scheduled for arraignment on March 1 in Warren County Common Pleas Court in Lebanon.

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