Theft charges create nightmare for Raymore couple

[proud2BlibKansan]

Wow. Wish I could post the entire article. Talk about a miscarriage of justice!! Just unreal.

Each morning, Irene Stevens of Raymore gets up and checks a Missouri courts website to see if her husband has been charged with knocking over another Walmart.

Irene had never heard of Casenet before July 2. That was the evening police officers showed up at the couple’s home with an arrest warrant for Glenn, the high school sweetheart she married in 1954.

While the officers waited, Irene called Glenn, who cleans office buildings at night to supplement the couple’s retirement income.

Don’t worry, he told her. Has to be some kind of mistake.

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The charges stem from an “obtained” license plate of a red Mercury Villager, the complicity of Glenn’s brother, Charles, and, supposedly in Versailles, a report that Glenn identified himself as Glenn Stevens to store employees before stealing merchandise, documents say.

Glenn and Irene’s only vehicle is a silver Dodge Caravan, and Glenn has no brother named Charles.



Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/11/25/2471853/theft-charges-create-nightmare.html#ixzz16PciYkLs

[murielm99]

1. This guy is being asked to prove his innocence,

as the article says. He is right. It is supposed to be the other way around: they have to prove his guilt.

And this is costing him a fortune!

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. I kept reading waiting for a good reason he was accused in the first place

Never saw that.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

3. This is the first post in the comments section.

From one of Glens sons.

"I want to thank the KC Star for putting together such a good report. The events described have hurt my Dad and Mom a great deal. I know that Dad will be vindicated. I keep thinking that the nightmare will soon be over for them. I will no longer shop in Wal-Mart; I do not believe they operate in the public's best interest. We can see in this case that they spread my dad's good name across two states to all of their stores with no legal conviction of him and then bar him from their property as if he were convicted of a crime at their store. I have shopped at Wal-Mart from 1978 to July of this year. I believe that if Sam were alive he may have been arested for the crimes because he looks more like the guy in the photos than my dad. Wal-Mart security is acting as a private police force with no obligation to prove guilt but to put you in a position to prove you are innocent. It is not supose to work that way in this country. When the police that are there to protect and serve, and become agents for Wal-Mart, this can happen to anyone. Any law enforcment officer that states " he will have his time in court to prove he is innocent" should be removed from law enforcment forever as they do not know the basics of how they are to conduct themselves. Beware when in Wal-Mart you may become the next case of mistaken identity."

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/11/25/2471853/theft-charges-create-nightmare.html#ixzz16PjqJEMh

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. I have a good friend whose mom worked for Sam Walton

She was a clerical worker who eventually became one of his top executives. And eventually she stopped shopping at WalMart. She was disgusted by the company's policies, how they treated their employees and the failure to continue to buy only American made products. She said Sam would have never approved of these policies.

I realize that's just anecdotal, but WalMart made her a wealthy woman when she retired. Sam also left her a bundle. And if she says Sam wouldn't approve, I am inclined to believe her.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. kick

[madmom]

6. While I will say walmart is not totally innocent here, it seems to me

the prosecution is the one making all the grief for this family. If they had/have been doing the job they are supposed to do, the way they are supposed to do it, the case would have been dropped from the get go.:shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Lots of guilty parties here

with the exception of the accused.