The 34-year-old Fort Walton Beach man was buying groceries at Albertson’s when he stopped at a bin of candy and put an unspecified number of jelly beans in his mouth, according to an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office report.
The deputy, who was working an off-duty detail, confronted the suspect after he had paid for the rest of his groceries and asked him if the candy was good. “Yes,” the suspect replied, according to the report.
The deputy told a manager that the suspect had taken about 10 of the “raspberry-flavored” candies. The man denied taking more than two. He added that he’d been shopping at Albertson’s for 30 years and that he was just trying the candy to see if he wanted to buy it. The deputy “advised him that Albertson’s did not have free samples of candy and he should have known that if he had been shopping at Albertson’s for 30 years.”
The store manager on duty told the deputy that he wanted charges brought against the suspect, who was also issued a trespass warning. The jelly beans were priced at $6.99 a pound. The deputy estimated that the 10 jellybeans would have had a value of about $2. A store manager contacted Thursday confirmed that the store has a “zero tolerance” policy against shoplifting.
How does Officer Eagle Eye have the balls to say he saw the guy take 10 jelly beans? Is he the annual winner of the “guess how many beans are in the jar” contest at the local precinct?
What kind of a prick gets into a guys face over some jelly beans? Must be some twenty-something douche that just received his badge and gun. Cops wonder why the general population has such a dislike for them. Ask the guy for $2 and be done with it. His is 34 for Christ sakes it’s not like he is some kid that needs to be taught a lesson about stealing.
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How big are these jelly beans if 10 > a quarter pound? I’d steal massive jelly beans too!