Monroe County Sheriff's Office deputies are trying to identify a person connected to a larceny at the Wegmans located at 745 Calkins Road in Henrietta, which occurred at 6:40 a.m. on Tuesday, September 29, 2026. Deputies have released a photo of the individual they are seeking to identify and are asking the public for help putting a name to the face.
According to Newport Dispatch, anyone with information is asked to email the Monroe County Sheriff's Office and reference case number CR #26-184578 when reaching out. No arrest has been announced in connection with the incident as of this writing.
A Familiar Address for Early-Morning Theft Calls
This is not the first time deputies have been called to this particular Wegmans for an early-morning theft. Back in February 2025, Monroe County Sheriff's Office deputies investigated a separate larceny at the same store that happened around 6:08 a.m., and released suspect images following that incident as well, the same outlet's report notes.
More recently, the station's report also points to a Facebook post detailing a case in which deputies arrested three men accused of stealing nearly $400 in energy drinks from the Calkins Road Wegmans, loading the goods into a getaway vehicle before deputies caught up with them in the parking lot. The repeated incidents suggest the store has become something of a recurring flashpoint for retail theft calls in southern Monroe County.
The Zone B substation of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office sits on the very same stretch of roadway at 393 Calkins Road, a jurisdiction that covers Henrietta and several surrounding towns in the southern part of the county, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
How New York Law Treats the Value of Stolen Goods
Under New York Penal Law, the dollar value of what's taken determines how serious the charge can get. Stealing property valued at $1,000 or less is classified as Petit Larceny, a Class A misdemeanor carrying up to a year in jail, while anything exceeding $1,000 can be charged as Grand Larceny in the Fourth Degree, a Class E felony, according to Saland Law. It is not yet known how much property was taken in Tuesday's incident at Wegmans.
State lawmakers have also given prosecutors more tools to pursue felony charges against repeat offenders. Under New York's FY 2025 budget legislation, enacted in April 2024, prosecutors can aggregate the value of goods stolen across multiple stores when the thefts are part of the same ongoing criminal scheme, allowing cases that might otherwise be misdemeanors to reach felony grand larceny thresholds, according to the New York State Assembly.
Part of a Statewide Crackdown on Retail Theft
The Henrietta case comes amid a broader statewide push against retail theft. The same 2024 legislation elevated assault on a retail worker that causes physical injury from a misdemeanor to a Class E felony, and the state's FY 2025 budget set aside $40.2 million for dedicated retail theft law enforcement teams along with a $5 million tax credit program to help small businesses pay for security upgrades like cameras, per the Office of Governor Kathy Hochul.
Those investments appear to be paying off on paper. The Governor's Office reported in November 2025 that the New York State Police Organized Retail Theft Task Force had made more than 1,224 arrests and recovered $2.6 million in stolen goods across 1,006 operations statewide since launching in April 2024.
Wegmans, founded in 1916 in Rochester, is now headquartered in neighboring Gates, making it one of the region's most prominent locally based employers. Incidents like Tuesday's larceny tend to draw quick attention from both deputies and the public.
The investigation remains active, and deputies have not released additional details about the suspect's identity or the value of the property taken. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the Monroe County Sheriff's Office and reference the case number provided in the original report.
