Man caught with 12-inch pepperoni stick in pants

Rodney A. Covington walked out of a Spring Hill supermarket Sunday night with a 12-inch pepperoni stick in his shorts, police said, and that got him arrested. When Covington, 34, walked past all the registers at the Kash n' Karry at 11160 Spring Hill Drive, he was confronted by the store's manager. According to a Sheriff's Office report, Covington lifted his shirt, "exposing the pepperoni stick." The manager then saw a 1-pound block of pepper jack cheese tucked into Covington's hip pocket. Covington waited for a deputy to arrive and then explained that he was carrying the meat and cheese in his pants because he had hurt his hand and couldn't carry a shopping basket.