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Century Dollar General Manager Charged With Grand Theft
October 23, 2025
The manager of a Dollar General in Century has has been charged with stealing deposits totaling almost $8,000.
Dollar General Loss Prevention reported to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office that store manager Casey Leigh Rice failed to turn in two days of deposits. Dollar General reported that deposits of $$5,514.13 and another for $2,485.65 for October 2 and October 4 were recovered from her purse, according to an arrest report. The Dollar General loss prevention employee told deputies that Rice has admitted to stealing the deposits in a written statement. The total amount allegedly stolen by Rice was $7,999.78.
Rice told deputies that she “has been struggling with money, because her car broke down”, the arrested report states. Her additional statements were redacted from the report.
Rice was charged with felony grand theft between $5,000 and $10,000. She was later released from the Escambia County Jail on a $5,000 bond.
According to the ECSO report, Rice was manager of the Dollar General at 7731 North Century Boulevard, near Highway 4A
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9 Responses to “Century Dollar General Manager Charged With Grand Theft”
I’m not so sure that she intended to steal the money. If she had intended to steal them, would she have left the deposits in the bags in her purse at work??? That doesn’t make sense to me. She didn’t have a vehicle, so it sounds more like she was hoping to get a ride to the bank to deposit them before anyone realized they weren’t there yet. If she had reported that she didn’t have a vehicle, they would have demoted her because managers are required to have a vehicle to make bank runs. Until I hear more, I will reserve judgment.
I know that there are people right here in our community that are struggling. It is so easy for people to sit behind their phones and pass judgment on someone without being in their shoes. When you have nothing left to give, I mean nothing and you have mouths to feed and you have been to these “food banks” and “food pantries” now I’m not talking about the good ones we have around here cause I know of an amazing one over in Jay But when you go in there and lay your entire life out for them and you are so overwhelmed you don’t know where else to turn and you explain to them that you are going through the process of trying to get disability because you honestly have so many things both physically and mentally going on and they tell you that you look alright to them all you need to do is get a job, It will send you spiralling down. The facts are that noone knows what others are going through or what they have been through. No one knows how broken others are on the inside. Don’t judge people based on your own ignorance. As a matter of fact I believe the Bible said it best LET HE WHO IS FREE FROM SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE.
@sprinkle. She is old enough to know better than to steal money from the place that employees her. Struggling or not don’t give anyone a right to steal anything period!
@Sprinkle People who need support should go about it honestly. It’s the dishonesty that gets people in trouble. See how that works?
Yall please don’t come after her being mean ik her son personally and ik they have been struggling she is a kind woman and really has been struggling with money she doesn’t need criticism she needs support!
Stores don’t just overlook 8k missing, she should have known it was a instant caught.
..no worries…some judge will sentence her tob her to 2 hours without her cell phone…
did she think they just wouldn’t notice? lol
This sob story about the broken down car will pull the heartstrings of our weak prosecutors and lazy judges. She’ll be back out in the streets working on her next heist in no time.