(September 26, 2021 at 5:02 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Man charged with felony, jailed on $50k cash bond for 43-cent ‘theft’
Joseph Sobolewski stopped at a convenience store in Perry County last month where he saw a sign for 20-ounce Mountain Dew bottles: 2 for $3.
He grabbed a bottle, slapped $2 on the counter and walked out.
What he didn’t know was a single bottle was $2.29, not $1.50. So he had shorted the store 29 cents plus tax, or 43 cents total.
The store called police, who tracked him down. Pennsylvania State police officers charged him with a felony, locked him up on $50,000 cash-only bond. He’s facing the possibility of up to seven years in prison.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/09/ma...theft.html
This might be the most disturbing thing from that article:
Quote:Third and subsequent offenses, no matter the amount, are all graded as a third-degree felonies, which is the same charge for items valued at more than $1,000. Other crimes that count as a third-degree felony are involuntary manslaughter, institutional sexual assault and carrying a firearm without a license.
So, not paying 43c is legally the equivalent of involuntary manslaughter. That is, in judicial parlance, epically fucked up.
Boru
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