Posted on 04/24/2021 7:16:00 AM PDT by mylife
A former Oklahoma resident is facing felony embezzlement charges for not returning a VHS tape rented in Norman more than two decades ago.
Online documents show Caron McBride is a wanted woman for never returning 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' on VHS tape in 1999.
"The first thing she told me was felony embezzlement, so, I thought I was gonna have a heart attack," McBride said.
McBride said she first learned about the charges when trying to change her name on her license after getting married in Texas.
"I went to change my driver's license, during this COVID thing you had to make an appointment, and so, I sent them an email (and) they sent me an email and they told me... that I had an issue in Oklahoma and this was the reference number for me to call this number and I did," McBride said.
McBride said the number was to the Cleveland County District Attorney's Office, where a woman there told her about the charges filed against her.
"She told me it was over the VHS tape and I had to make her repeat it because I thought, this is insane. This girl is kidding me, right? She wasn't kidding," McBride said.
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Lt. Bookman?
He’s one tough monkey..
She should demand a jury trial, refuse to accept any plea deal and make the state make the case that this is worthy of prosecution.
They were going to drop the whole matter, but then they discovered she didn’t rewind the tape before returning it.
How was this ever a Felony?
Or offer restitution. 99 cents on an Ebay gift card, which should be enough to get a replacement copy (used, ‘cause there’s no new ones - duh!) on Ebay.
Beat her Max!
She fled across state lines to Texas. Duh!
Just goes to show you that any one of us can get hit with a “jail-able” crime anytime the government feels like it. Heck I am wearing my boxer underwear right now in front of my kids sipping my morning coffee. That is probably a felony.
The real crime was she rented ‘Sabrina the Teen-Age Witch.” Talk about your felonies!
Never mind, later on in the story, the reporter mentioned that the DA is dropping the case. The lady should push to press civil charges against the (probably now retired) prosecutor who filed the warrant years ago. She lost jobs over this warrant, which she was apparently never served with and the state probably didn’t even make a legitimate case for filing in the first place.
If nothing else, it should make the case in the public arena that prosecutors have little accountability for the effects of charges that they file.
“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”
Joseph Stalin
Maybe it was a Gene pick.
There was one particualr video place we’d use, and I was careful to always return the tapes on time, because I hated the late fee.
However, if I hadn’t gotten anything their for a month or two, when I rent to rent the tape, they’d always tell me I had a late charge against my account. Evem though I was sure I’d returned the tape on time, it was hard to argue because it was months ago.
I figured out they were just tagging old accounts with a late fee, because it was hard to argue with.
“Just goes to show you that any one of us can get hit with a “jail-able” crime anytime the government feels like it. Heck I am wearing my boxer underwear right now in front of my kids sipping my morning coffee. That is probably a felony.”
Don’t rip that mattress tag/stamp off your mattress. You could get arrested for it.
If on the other hand, the tape was rented on her account with the store, and her membership agreement detailed the accrual of late fees, this could have been an interesting civil case had the store not gone out of business and chose to pursue it.
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