Tracking device leads to stolen cigarettes

A Lebanon man has been charged in federal court with stealing $15,300 worth of cigarettes from a tractor-trailer.
Jack Roberts, 44, is accused of taking 17 cases of cigarettes out of a truck early on the morning of Sept. 16.
The truck, which was shipping cigarettes from Winston Salem, N.C., to Nashville, had stopped in Lebanon for the night when the theft occurred.
According to court documents, authorities used a tracking device mixed in with the cigarettes to find them in a storage unit Roberts had rented in Wilson County.
Roberts was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday. He has been in police custody since his Nov. 3 arrest in eastern Kentucky.