Missouri Man Faces 30-Year Prison Term
This crook might go to jail for life and OJ will probably go free again. [:(!] It's the American way, I guess. I don't try to understand, anymore. They are both career criminals, so I don't know the answer.........[B)][B)]
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Missouri Man Faces 30-Year Prison Term for Stealing 52-Cent Doughnut
Monday, October 08, 2007
FARMINGTON, Mo. - A Park Hills man could potentially pay a hefty price to satisfy his sweet tooth.
Scott A. Masters, 41, has been charged with felony second-degree robbery after employees at a Country Mart in this town 70 miles south of St. Louis said he slipped a 52-cent doughnut into his sweat shirt without paying last December, then pushed away a clerk who tried to stop him as he fled the store.
The push is being treated as minor assault, which transforms a misdemeanor shoplifting charge to a strong-armed robbery with a potential prison term of five to 15 years. Given Masters' criminal past, prosecutors could boost that sentence to 30 years to life.
"Strong-arm robbery? Over a doughnut? That's impossible," Masters told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from jail. He admitted that he took the pastry but denying touching the female employee. "I've never had a violent crime in my life. And there's no way I would've pushed a woman over a doughnut."
Farmington Police Chief Rick Baker said state law treats the shoplifting and assault as forcibly stealing property. The amount of force and value of the property doesn't matter.
"It's not the doughnut," Baker said. "It's the assault."
Masters, who has been arrested more than a dozen times for crimes ranging from shoplifting to drug possession to torching a car for insurance fraud, said he forgot about the doughnut theft as he spent the summer in jail on outstanding warrants.
He was indicted Sept. 14 for the robbery and is being held on $25,000 bail after having his case continued on Friday. With two prior felony convictions, Masters could face a long prison sentence if found guilty because prosecutors could pursue an enhanced sentence.
County Prosecutor Wendy Wexler Horn said it was "way too early to know how it is going to play out," but that the charge seemed appropriate given the store employees' allegations. She acknowledged some are questioning the seriousness of the charge.
"People are missing the point," Horn said. "It is not about the doughnut."
For Masters' part, he didn't even get to enjoy his ill-gotten gains. He said he threw the doughnut away as he fled.
rider
Missouri Man Faces 30-Year Prison Term for Stealing 52-Cent Doughnut
Monday, October 08, 2007
FARMINGTON, Mo. - A Park Hills man could potentially pay a hefty price to satisfy his sweet tooth.
Scott A. Masters, 41, has been charged with felony second-degree robbery after employees at a Country Mart in this town 70 miles south of St. Louis said he slipped a 52-cent doughnut into his sweat shirt without paying last December, then pushed away a clerk who tried to stop him as he fled the store.
The push is being treated as minor assault, which transforms a misdemeanor shoplifting charge to a strong-armed robbery with a potential prison term of five to 15 years. Given Masters' criminal past, prosecutors could boost that sentence to 30 years to life.
"Strong-arm robbery? Over a doughnut? That's impossible," Masters told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from jail. He admitted that he took the pastry but denying touching the female employee. "I've never had a violent crime in my life. And there's no way I would've pushed a woman over a doughnut."
Farmington Police Chief Rick Baker said state law treats the shoplifting and assault as forcibly stealing property. The amount of force and value of the property doesn't matter.
"It's not the doughnut," Baker said. "It's the assault."
Masters, who has been arrested more than a dozen times for crimes ranging from shoplifting to drug possession to torching a car for insurance fraud, said he forgot about the doughnut theft as he spent the summer in jail on outstanding warrants.
He was indicted Sept. 14 for the robbery and is being held on $25,000 bail after having his case continued on Friday. With two prior felony convictions, Masters could face a long prison sentence if found guilty because prosecutors could pursue an enhanced sentence.
County Prosecutor Wendy Wexler Horn said it was "way too early to know how it is going to play out," but that the charge seemed appropriate given the store employees' allegations. She acknowledged some are questioning the seriousness of the charge.
"People are missing the point," Horn said. "It is not about the doughnut."
For Masters' part, he didn't even get to enjoy his ill-gotten gains. He said he threw the doughnut away as he fled.
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Our jails are too overcrowded. Dont send him to jail.
Chop off his hands and release him.0 -
Arabs do it every time they find a theif.. are we to be included with them or at the same level as them.. and they still cut off people's hands here, so dies it always work... guess not...
lots of guys w/o hands here...0 -
When they passed the 3 strikes law in Kalif there was a cry from the sniveling liberals about the idiots with two strikes getting arrested for going into a liquor store without money and stealing a six-pack of beer. Well going into a business with no money and stealing is a burglary. Yep a felony, and a third strike.
If these crooks had brains, and if they had two strikes, you'd think that they would stop committing crimes. But they don't, and that's why they are behind bars and not out walking the streets.
Please spare me the whining, if they didn't commit the crimes they wouldn't be in jail or prison.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Alpine
When they passed the 3 strikes law in Kalif there was a cry from the sniveling liberals about the idiots with two strikes getting arrested for going into a liquor store without money and stealing a six-pack of beer. Well going into a business with no money and stealing is a burglary. Yep a felony, and a third strike.
If these crooks had brains, and if they had two strikes, you'd think that they would stop committing crimes. But they don't, and that's why they are behind bars and not out walking the streets.
Please spare me the whining, if they didn't commit the crimes they wouldn't be in jail or prison.
And if they were smart they would say the didnt decide to steal anything until "after" they entered the store, so no burg. Just went in to look around. Yeh right...0 -
Yep, cut off their hands, that will solve the problem.. then we are no better than what the Arabs do with them..
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Got some hackels up did I ??......[;)][;)] 0
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