When Darren Kersey plugged his mobile phone charger into the force supply of a pushover shelter in Gillespie Park , Sarasota , all he wanted was a little rise of his battery level . He surely did n’t bank on getting arrest and spending the nighttime in a cell .
But that ’s what happened : law arrested Kersey , charge him with “ theft of utilities ” , after they spotted him charging his earpiece in the car park last Sunday . Unable to raise the $ 500 bond expect of him , he had no selection but to spend the night in jail .
In a subsequent law reputation , reports the Herald Trubune , Sgt . Anthony Frangioni compose that “ theft of metropolis utilities will not be tolerated during this bad economy . ” This might be a near sentence to orient out that itonly cost 41 cents to charge an iPhone for a whole year . ( For the record , it ’s not clear what form of phone Kersey was charge . )
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It seems unlikely , then , that Kersey ’s sneaky little burster was be the city a great peck — which is why , on Monday morning , Circuit Judge Charles Williams threw the guinea pig out because Frangioni lacked any effectual justification to make the arrest . For once , Department of Justice is served . [ Herald TribuneviaBoing Boing ]
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