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Rolling Back Wal-Mart Prices On His Own
STUART — A Martin County man will spend the next 10 weekends in jail and another year on probation for illegally rolling back prices on Wal-Mart items such as Xbox games, diapers and fishing supplies to 75 cents each.
Paul Joseph Vest, 25, allegedly shopped at the Wal-Mart Supercenter at 4001 S.E. Federal Highway in Stuart and used copiedÂ
bar code stickers from a toy car to ring up items at reduced prices in the self-serve checkout lanes.
In five trips, police said, he rang up items that included the games and supplies, as well as spark plugs and car mats. Wal-Mart officials and Stuart police used video surveillance to catch him during his last checkout, March 11.
Vest was charged with scheming to defraud, as well as several counts of retail theft.
He pleaded no contest to a single count of scheming to defraud and received the probation and the jail sentence as part of a plea agreement.
Judge Robert Belanger withheld a judgment of guilt, meaning Vest could later petition to have his record expunged.
As part of the agreement, Vest will have to pay $100 in restitution to Wal-Mart and will never be allowed in the Stuart store.
Older Americans Month, 2007
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim May 2007 as Older Americans Month.
10-year-old dies after scalding bath
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) — A 10-year-old disabled girl severely burned by scalding bath water died after going more than a week without medical treatment, authorities said Tuesday. Her father and a female relative were charged in her death.
“If you’d see the photos and the condition that she was left in — just to lay in that bed with all those burns,” said Police Chief Charles Kellar. “I mean, it was horrible.”
Quiniece Lockett was blind, partially paralyzed and had cerebral palsy, Kellar said.
Police said her father, Shaun A. Lockett, 32, and another relative, Lashawn S. Brown, 27, were charged with criminal homicide, endangering a child’s welfare and two counts of conspiracy. They were being held without bail. The Dauphin County Prison listed Lockett’s first name as Shawn.
Kellar said Quiniece was burned over nearly half her body during a bath that Brown gave her April 21, but no medical help was summoned until she became unresponsive Sunday. Quiniece was declared dead at a hospital, and an autopsy performed Monday concluded she died of complications from burns.
“Apparently the water had to be extremely, extremely hot,” Kellar said. “We’re looking into, right now, whether the water heater could have heated the water that hot or whether there was hot water added.”