The former chief of security at Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center in Powhatan County was convicted Monday in Goochland County General District Court of petty larceny for the theft of a wallet.

Thomas F. Neumayer was arrested by Goochland County Sheriff’s deputies last month and charged with two felony counts of credit card theft and the one count of petty larceny after a wallet was reported missing at a Goochland grocery store.

Neumayer was convicted Monday of taking a man’s wallet from the checkout line after he had mistakenly left it behind at a Food Lion in the county’s Courthouse Commons shopping center. 
Goochland County Sheriff James L. Agnew said surveillance cameras caught Neumayer pocketing the wallet just after the man had left the store. 

Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Nancy Oglesby said that “within 20 seconds the man came back in looking for his wallet. He [Neumayer] even helped him look for it.”

The two felony charges of credit card theft were dismissed by nolle prosse, Oglesby said, meaning prosecutors could bring them back in the future.  Neumayer was sentenced to 30 days in jail with 30 more suspended and put on probation.

Beaumont’s public relations officer, Bruce Twyman, said Neumayer, who has been with the correctional facility for years, resigned after the decision Monday. He had previously been placed on leave pending the outcome.