Four people have been arrested for a Dec. 27 cash theft at Aragon Grocery on Rome Highway, according to police.

Crystal Lasha Baker, 23, and Herschel Oneil Payne, 31, of 718 White River Road, Rockmart, were arrested Jan. 26. Baker was a clerk at the store. Payne is Baker’s husband.

Additionally, Baker’s mother, Sheila Perkins, and Perkins’ boyfriend, Walter Watkins, are also charged in the crime, according to Sgt. Charles Goss of the Aragon Police Department.

Baker and Payne are charged with conspiracy to commit a theft. Baker was released from the Polk County Jail on bond while Payne remains in jail.

Perkins and Watkins are in the Bartow County Jail with charges from Polk County pending.

The initial report stated that someone came in, went to the back, and took $3,600 in cash. Goss said Baker grew as a suspect by observing the video and questioning her.

Baker also showed deception on a polygraph test, he said. That deception led to another interview.

“During that interview, she came clean partially,” Goss said. “She told me her part, not her husband’s part.”

Over the course of the investigation, warrants were taken out for Watkins and Perkins. They were found at the Relax Inn in Adairsville when Watkins was arrested by law enforcement there for allegedly selling narcotics out the motel.

Perkins’ interview was the break Aragon police needed to close the case, Goss said.

“She confessed to everything but also confessed to her daughter’s and her husband’s involvement, saying they got some of the money,” Goss said.

Another interview with Baker and Payne led to their confessions as well, he said.

Perkins and Watkins will eventually be transferred to Polk County to face charges here after they make bond in Bartow County.

However, Watkins will be transferred again after his case here is over. He faces a probation violation charge in Gordon County, Goss said.