Posted on 07/11/2005 1:08:03 PM PDT by Dog Gone
WACO — A man has been sentenced to 99 years in prison for stealing a cell phone.
Glenn Alvin Reed, 31, was convicted of robbery Thursday for stealing a cellular phone from a man's truck last fall and then hitting him several times when he demanded its return.
Jurors, who deliberated about 15 minutes, convicted Reed as a habitual criminal because he has prior felony convictions for injury to an elderly person and robbery. That bumped the minimum sentence from five to 25 years for Reed, who rejected a 15-year plea bargain offer from prosecutors.
Reed also has 15 misdemeanor convictions dating to 1991, including 12 criminal trespassing convictions.
Reed, who testified during his trial against the wishes of his court-appointed attorneys, frequently went into profanity-laced tirades and told jurors he didn't care if they gave him life in prison.
"There's things I choose to do, like, if I go in a store and choose to take a Snicker's bar," Reed testified. "If you catch me, you catch me. If not, I'm going to go home and eat it up and go on about my business, dog."
Four years ago, Reed walked up behind retired Texas Ranger Capt. Bob Prince outside the McLennan County courthouse annex and said he was robbing him. Prince decided not to shoot Reed because he could tell he was unarmed, the former Ranger testified during Reed's cell phone robbery trial.
Prince easily took Reed into custody, and he later was sentenced to two years in prison, according to court records.
Reed made an obscene hand gesture toward Prince as the former Ranger left the witness stand.
Wonder if they'll call him "dog".... or perhaps "Fifi".
#1 I'm not your "pal"
#2 I'm not "exasperated either.
"Almost everyone was thinking it"? Why, in 60 replies were you the only one who brought race into the discussion?
The editor also missed the facts. The man wasn't sentenced for stealing a cell phone. He was sentenced for being a habitual criminal.
"I steal when I wanna steal," Reed later added as he was taken to his cell.
""There's things I choose to do, like, if I go in a store and choose to take a Snicker's bar," Reed testified. "If you catch me, you catch me. If not, I'm going to go home and eat it up and go on about my business, dog.""
Yeah? Well, now you can go to the prison store, pay for your snicker's and hope your roomy "Big Bubba" let's you eat it before he gets the snugglies for you, Dog.
"I'll just rob a few folks and maybe beat someone an inch to their death, but hey, I didn't kill them so I'll get 36 months in the joint."
The mainstream media sure has a special way with words.;)
Well, if thats a Sprint phone, then they steal and inherit dropped connections and poor service with foreign accents unintelligable foreign accents.
Forget the assault. This guy clearly needed to be put away for life even without it.
Dear Mad Mammoth,
"Easy on the premature exasperation pal, I only pointed out what nearly everyone else was already thinking, if not saying it."
I wasn't thinking it until you brought it up.
sitetest
The article said he had prior felony convicxtions including injury to an alderly person and robbery. This guy had more than misdemenor convictions. He is a murder in progress. Best to get him off the streets before he does it.
"Jurors, who deliberated about 15 minutes,......"
LOL! I'll bet they spent 14 of those minutes just killing time for appearances sake.
He probably wasn't going to jail for life, until he took the opportunity during his trial to explain that he intended to commit a variety of additional crimes, and flatly didn't care about consequences.
or just destroying more than he ever stole. A dozen car windows adds up fast.
Who do you think pursuaded him to be a non-caucasian?
Just consider it the cost of preventing someone else from being robbed or worse at the hands of this idiot.
Actually, he was. He was convicted of robbery, with the additional jury finding that he was a habitual criminal.
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