Authorities are asking the public to help identify a man they say stole a phone and its sales receipt from a home in China and then tried to return the item to the Walmart store in Augusta.

In a Facebook post, Maine State Police said the suspect is accused of taking the phone from a home on Pleasant View Ridge Road in China. They didn’t identify the time of the alleged theft or how recently the phone had been purchased.

A Walmart a security camera photo shows a man suspected of stealing a phone from a home in China and trying to return to it the Augusta store.
A Walmart a security camera photo shows a man suspected of stealing a phone from a home in China and trying to return to it the Augusta store. Maine State Police photo

Later Monday, state police removed the original Facebook post, saying they now had a “viable lead” on the suspect.

In a security camera photo taken at the Augusta store, the man is wearing what appears to be a camouflage baseball hat and gray sweatshirt. He drives a red extended-cab GMC truck, police said.

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