Burlington Employees Arrested at Marietta Store

Two Burlington Coat Factory employees have admitted that they took items from the store without paying for them.

Anthony Hester and Alkini Patterson each face a charge of theft by taking in connection with the alleged incidents, according to online jail records.

Hester of Powder Springs "was witnessed via store surveillance over the last three months to present taking multiple items from the store where he worked," a Marietta police officer wrote in a Cobb County criminal warrant.

Store surveillance also captured Patterson of Marietta allegedly taking items from the store over a period of one month, records show.

Hester and Patterson were arrested Thursday afternoon at Burlington Coat Factory. Hester was released early Friday on a $1,500 bond. Patterson was released this afternoon on a $5,000 bond.