Unreal. Same thing happened in my town. It was a police Lt who actually had a key because the bar owner thought he could trust him.
There was an officer in a town I lived in that was a problem for decades too.
He didnt have a key, he just walked into different places and stole things right in front of everyone and walked out.
When Blockbuster came to town it was their attorneys that got the boulder rolling to finally crush that cockroach.