Billyman
12-04-2002, 11:56 PM
I'm talking about idiots people. (http://www.startribune.com/stories/1451/3474149.html)
SCRANTON, Pa. -- A man charged with theft didn't have the money to pay for a rehabilitation program that would clear his criminal record, so he stole a courthouse computer to pawn off, police said.
Police said Ernesto Valdez, 32, arrived Monday at the Lackawanna County Courthouse to enroll in the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program, which expunges the criminal record of first-time offenders.
Valdez did not have the $685 enrollment fee, so he stole a court stenographer's laptop computer to pawn, according to police.
The pawn shop refused to take the computer because the power cord was missing, so Valdez returned to the courthouse to retrieve it, police said. He was arrested after a stenographer spotted him in the office with a wire dangling from his pocket, police said.
Valdez appeared before Judge Trish Corbett twice Monday - first she accepted him into the rehabilitation program, and later she revoked his bail and ordered him to the county prison.
Valdez had been accepted into the program after being charged in connection with theft of stereos from several cars in Scranton in June.
SCRANTON, Pa. -- A man charged with theft didn't have the money to pay for a rehabilitation program that would clear his criminal record, so he stole a courthouse computer to pawn off, police said.
Police said Ernesto Valdez, 32, arrived Monday at the Lackawanna County Courthouse to enroll in the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program, which expunges the criminal record of first-time offenders.
Valdez did not have the $685 enrollment fee, so he stole a court stenographer's laptop computer to pawn, according to police.
The pawn shop refused to take the computer because the power cord was missing, so Valdez returned to the courthouse to retrieve it, police said. He was arrested after a stenographer spotted him in the office with a wire dangling from his pocket, police said.
Valdez appeared before Judge Trish Corbett twice Monday - first she accepted him into the rehabilitation program, and later she revoked his bail and ordered him to the county prison.
Valdez had been accepted into the program after being charged in connection with theft of stereos from several cars in Scranton in June.