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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCaught on Video: Florida Deputy Repeatedly Steals from Walmart — While Armed and in Uniform
http://www.alternet.org/caught-video-florida-deputy-repeatedly-steals-walmart-while-armed-and-uniformA Florida deputy has been charged with theft after he was accused of repeatedly stealing from a Coral Springs Walmart while he was in uniform.
A Broward Sheriffs Office spokesperson said that 51-year-old Theodore Parrish stole $176 worth of merchandise. And according to a police report obtained by the Sun Sentinel, he was wearing his uniform, and was armed with his service weapon on two of the occasions.
The police report indicated that Parrish committed the crimes by using the self-checkout kiosk, but he purposefully left the store without scanning some of the items.
It was mostly food and household items such as paper towels, eggs, ramen noodles, frozen fish fillets, bacon, bleach, topsoil and a poinsettia, spokesperson Dani Moschella said.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/caught-on-video-florida-deputy-repeatedly-steals-from-walmart-while-armed-and-in-uniform/
NutmegYankee
(16,178 posts)Gotta hand it to our Untouchable Class.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,178 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Guess that covers Walmart employees.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)Since he was armed with his service weapon at the time of the crimes, doesn't that make the charge an automatic use of a firearm in the commission of a crime? That's a felony isn't it? Instead of petty theft, shouldn't he be charged with felony armed robbery?
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)QuestionableC
(63 posts)Had the loss prevention associates confronted the deputy, and he pulled his weapon, a robbery would have occurred.
avebury
(10,946 posts)a lot of people would view a cop with a gun as threat of force in combination with theft. More people then less would be in fear of their lives at the thought of the consequences of calling out the cop for this theft. I would not assume that the guy would not pull out his gun an develop some trumped up charges to cover his crime.
Renew Deal
(81,802 posts)So I'd say he's stealing it back.