This story is just tooooo good. A cop in Upstate New York was busted for stealing DONUTS! ooo, I could have such FUN with this story!
MORRISVILLE, N.Y. (AP) – Sgt. Steve Brody, a campus police officer accused of shoplifting pastries from an upstate New York convenience store will retire as part of a deal that avoids a criminal conviction.
According to his lawyer, Michael St. Leger, Brody has six months to retire. In return prosecutors will drop a petit larceny charge filed in October and allow Brody to collect his full pension.
The deal was reached earlier this month in a local town court.
State police said the 56-year-old Brody, who lives in Morrisville, was routinely caught on surveillance videos stuffing pastries into his clothing at a Valero Nice N Easy. The store offers free coffee to any police officer in uniform.
He was accused of taking baked goods worth about $30.
Part of it is the fault of the convenience store. They are offering *ONLY* free coffee to officers?! While a huge tray of delicious, cop-lusting donuts sits nearby?! And the cop is forced to have to purchase them? What cop wants merely free coffee?! The convenience store should have known this…
Still, I cannot BELIEVE that this cop is still getting his pension. Why are cops so pampered around here? There’s been a flurry of crime around here with cops, insurance agents, and lawyers (Mesothelioma lawyers??) as perpetrators, and they get off too easily. I think they should be dealt with according to the full extent of the law, just to teach non-cop criminals a lesson. All this guy did was steal donuts (snicker), but there have been others who’ve been caught stealing merchandise, extorting wages, and driving while drunk. THROW THE BOOK AT ‘EM! Cuz not only are they breaking the LAW, they are breaking the LAW that they promised to UPHOLD– their OATH. Doesn’t that mean anything, anymore??
Edited to add:
After writing this, I got this quote in my email:
“Crime is contagious.
If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law.”
– Justice Louis D. Brandeis
(1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice
May 29th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
This is the reason I’ve never met a cop that I can’t outrun.
Not like I have a long standing history of running from police officers or anything…Just sayin’.
May 30th, 2009 at 9:05 am
OK, C.B., whatever you say! ;) LOLOL!!!!!
(You are SO right about cops being easily outrun).