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  • 22
    Jan
    2013
    3:42am, EST

    Cigarette shoplifter jailed over 22-year-old warrant

    Brevard County Sheriff's Office

    Robin Hall was arrested because she shoplifted cigarettes from a Wal-Mart back in 1991.

    By Josh Chapin, NBCConnecticut.com

    For one Connecticut woman in Florida, the saying "better late than never" doesn't apply.

    Robin Hall was arrested because of a bill she didn't pay 22 years ago and to make matters worse, she's also been stuck in jail for the last four days.

    "I just want it to be all over so I can go home," Hall said from her Brevard County Jail, Florida. She shoplifted cigarettes from a Wal-Mart back in 1991.

    For that Hall owes the state $85.

    The 22-year-old crime followed the Connecticut native to Port Canaveral, Florida Thursday where she, her husband and two kids were wrapping up a vacation.

    The family had been aboard the Disney Dream cruise ship and Brevard County police officers were waiting for her as she left the boat.

    "I was pulled to the side and told that I had a warrant," Hall added.

    Police said Hall failed to pay the $85 in court costs when she was 18 and when they checked the ship's passenger list for terrorists, they found a warrant for Hall.

    Since the incident she has put herself through college and now helps design jet engines for Pratt & Whitney.

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    "I take full responsibility for what I did but I do not believe I deserve this," Hall said.

    The Brevard County Jail won't let her post bail because it's a charge from a different county and she has to be transferred there. Yet with the long holiday weekend that might not be until Thursday.

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    ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS. smfh. what a waste of resources!!!!

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  • 24
    Jul
    2012
    9:05am, EDT

    Authorities search for grandmother, boyfriend after toddler ingests cocaine


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    By Elizabeth Chuck, Staff Writer, NBC News

    Georgia authorities are searching for a toddler's grandmother and her boyfriend after the 13-month-old was found to have ingested cocaine.

     The toddler's mom brought him to Piedmont Newnan Hospital on Saturday, near his grandmother's Palmetto, Ga., home. He was transferred and admitted to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, where doctors confirmed he had cocaine in his system, Palmetto Police Sgt. Lee Gragg told NBC News.

    Police were told the boy, whose name was not released, ingested the cocaine at the home where his grandmother lives with her boyfriend. Warrants for Ebony Daniel, 34, and her boyfriend, Charlie Martin, 22, were issued Monday.

    Police have not had any contact with Daniel, but on Tuesday, Martin called the police sergeant.

    "He called me and stated he wished to turn himself in, but as of yet, that has not happened," Gragg said Tuesday afternoon. "I told him that was good, it'd work out best for him and everyone else if he did that."

    Martin did not provide any information on the whereabouts of his girlfriend, the toddler's grandmother.

    The toddler's 17-year-old mother is considered a witness and hasn't been charged, Gragg said.

    Toxicology reports to determine how much cocaine the boy ingested have not been returned yet, but the child had been released from the hospital after spending two nights there, investigators said Monday. He is expected to survive.

    Police searched Daniel and Martin's apartment Saturday, trying to piece together what happened.

    "According to witnesses, the cocaine was open and available on a table inside the house," Gragg said.

    Daniel and Martin face charges of possession of cocaine, cruelty to children in the first degree, and reckless conduct, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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    131 comments

    when i read "grandmother" i just knew she wouldn't be past 40 somehow. kids having kids yet never actually growing up. unfortunately i knew a couple of idiots like this who had kids then continued to party like they didn't. after they did, i couldn't stand the sight of them.

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