Marc Latimore

UPDATE 8/14/2019: Butler police withdrew the charges listed below against Marc Latimore on August 12. Police say Latimore was falsely accused of crimes, which he didn't commit when another man gave Latimore's name during the investigation. Read the full update to this article here.It could go down as the shortest written confession on record.Butler police said a man suspected of stealing a debit card later used it to buy beer, cigarettes and a cell phone, signing the sales receipts as “Thief.”The suspected signer, Marc A. Latimore, 28, of Penn Township, is facing eight charges in the case earlier this week.Capt. Ben Spangler said a 28-year-old woman told police Tuesday that she had given a man a ride home in the early morning Monday after leaving a bar.She had her purse in the center console when she picked him up. But it wasn't until later that day that she discovered the purse missing.She also discovered that her debit card, which had been in the purse, had already been used at two city stores. Spangler said the transactions were made around 11 a.m.At the Metro PCS store, police obtained a copy of a sales receipt that showed a $200 purchase of a phone made with the victim's card.The signature on the receipt, the captain's affidavit said, “appeared to spell out the word 'thief.'”Police also got their hands on the other receipt, this one from the nearby Butler Beer and Tobacco store, for a case of beer and a pack of cigarettes, totaling $42.99.Spangler tapped the department's database and came up with a suspect — Latimore — who allegedly matched the woman's description of the man she had given the ride.Spangler then had one more trick up his sleeve. He called the number to the phone that had been paid for with the stolen debit card.The man on the other end answered, and identified himself as Latimore.Police charged him by summons with two counts each of access device fraud and theft by deception, three counts of receiving stolen property and one count of theft from a vehicle, all misdemeanors.