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They locked up all the luggage and threw away the key

By MARK DAVIS The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 05/08/05 Excerpt... Her travels may be over, but Wilbanks' troubles may have just begun. Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter said he was examining evidence for a possible charge of making false statements to a government agency. Sartain believes that's not necessary. "She is deeply regretful of the pain she caused her family, her fiancé, her friends and the community who rallied to her aid," the lawyer said Wednesday. "I believe Jennifer committed no crime." Arrests for shoplifting Sartain, a former Hall County district attorney, knows her client. Court records show that...

Penniless pornographer Al Goldstein has "screwed" up his life some more — after being caught shoplifting books from a Barnes & Nobles yesterday, police said. And they weren't even dirty books. Goldstein, 68, the ex-publisher of Screw Magazine, was stopped by security on his way out of the chain's Lincoln Center store at 1972 Broadway, with three books, a police source said. They were health books "including at least one on colitis," the source said. Goldstein was charged with petit larceny. His life has been spiraling downward the last couple of years. In March 2002, he was found guilty of...

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. -- A judge has thrown the book at an elderly Southern California man after sheriff's deputies found about 3,000 stolen library books in his home. The Ventura County judge banned 85-year-old Ernest Heyneman from the county's libraries for 36 months. Heyneman earlier pleaded no contest to one count of commercial burglary. Heyneman didn't speak during his sentencing, but his wife, Emma, apologized for him. Ventura County Sheriff's deputies say they raided Heyneman's hilltop home and found $26,000 worth of books, video and audio tapes and CDs from the Thousand Oaks and Simi Valley libraries. Police say Heyneman...