There is a certain logic to the position of George R. Linthicum II, who was arrested after shoplifting beer from a Florida convenience store. If he was going to go to jail, he insisted that the police at least allow him to drink one of the beers.
Linthicum is charged Wednesday with shoplifting, battery, possession of marijuana not more than 20 grams and smuggling contraband into a detention facility.
It appears that incarceration is not treated as payment for the beer in Florida.
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Drinking the beer is destruction of evidence, a charge he doesn’t want to add to the others.
I hope he had assistance getting to his cell since it would be difficult to walk with balls that big.
Linthicum is charged Wednesday with shoplifting, battery, possession of marijuana not more than 20 grams and smuggling contraband into a detention facility.
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I can understand all of the charges but the last one. How the hell can you smuggle into a Jail when your hands are cuffed and are not free to leave. I presume that he way brought in through a secure “Sally Port”?
If he is convicted of this one, then I would file suit against the officer for false imprisonment or the officer should be suspended for failing to properly secure the suspect and threatening security at a penal institution.
As I understand it, he was recently laid off from the blood for oil program which was once booming in Baghdad.
He was not de-briefed sufficiently evidently.