Sounds like ‘the rest of the story’ is an overzealous prosecutor, especially if the shop owners wasn’t intersted in prosecuting. IF the shop owners were intent on nailing the guy, it’d be a different story.
You also gotta love this happening in Michigan, the most economically depressed state in the country right now. Their legislature has nothing better to do than make a high penalty crime of signing into someone’s free wifi.
Don’t most crimes involve a state of mind knowledge or intent to commit a crime? This sounds like an under-the-radar law that most people never heard of, not like burglary or rape or murder and other obvious crimes. Sounds like this guy still doesn’t understand how he came to break the law.
It sounds like the cops were unsure if a law was broken. One can also chalk up another win for those wanting all to have some sort of criminal record. Larceny by Conversion prevents a CCW for three years in Michigan. N3WBI3 will be tickled he can be a tattler and contact the police chief in Cedar Springs, Michigan to check for the volunteer firefighter having a CCW. I think a warning should have sufficed, and the cops could have gotten back to busting meth labs in Cedar Springs.