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.
Hear hear! This man speaks wisdom. To calculate the true cost of a habitual offender on the outside, multiply his rap sheet by the inverse of the local cop shop's solution rate - which is often in the single digits. He could very well do more than $25k of damage per year.
"Granted the guy should be off the street, bus isn't there something cheaper we could use."
Sure, take him out back and shoot him... cheap enough, dawg?? :o)
oh by the way, i'm not kidding...
Five bucks says the perp actually said "I'm gonna go home an eat it up an go on about my bidness, dog!" I love the way reporters clean up (i.e. make up) quotes in order to set the "tone" of their articles. Because an accurate quote might just prejudice us against the perp, based on his education and culture (which is the opposite of what this article is attempting to do)...
"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."
You were in the store?? :)
"I'm gonna go home an eat it up an go on about my bidness, dog!"
Followed by, "sheeeeeeeeeeeeeyit!"
Dear Mad Mammoth,
"You don't watch a lot of B.E.T., now do ya?"
No, I don't. I doubt that a lot of folks at FR do.
Do you?
sitetest
No, the other dog was. I was gone.
Bad pun.
Horrible. Without question.
Might need a little swat on the nose for that one... :)
"Who do you think pursuaded him to be a non-caucasian?"
Instead of bantering back and forth, why don't one of you just "aks" him?
'18 Strikes and You're Out' is soooo harsh.
Well, consider the fact he was violent to be the "cherry-on-top" if you will. ;-)
I won't engage in your style of trading insults,I see people like you every day on these threads and you aren't worth the effort.
And if you think I will so much as glance at any more of your replies - you don't know me very well "Pal"
OMG!!! That is the funniest thing I've read all day!!! (wiping tears from my eyes....)
The nice thing about this putrid punk is you can tell by his attitude that after a very short time he will be transfered to solitary in a supermax and spend his life in a 6 x 10 concrete hole with no window.
He's a career criminal. The thing about habitual criminals is that the damage they cause is well in excess of the cost of keeping them in prison. Canings will only result in his walking around more pissed off than he already is.
Perhaps we could produce a cheaper form of exile for those judged worthy of it. Perhaps we could outsource those prisoners to China. They could do it more cheaply than $25K.
The cheapest solution would involve a suitable length of rope
Golly!
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