Gotta love Texas Law eh?

Local soldier was served an arrest warrant for an overdue library book.Had to pay $300 or go to jail.He just returned from deployment and forgot he had the book. (happened in Killeen, TX)

When I was in high school I saw a guy get stripped searched in the school library because they thought he stole a library book.

Link/proof/evidence?

Dang!! Thats pretty harsh!!

I used to live in El Paso, TX ...My Dad is still down there and his best friend lives in Kileen, TX.....sooo his best friend's son is the cop who served the warrant..... no evidence...I just dont think 2 older men would make up a story like that........

link?
that's ridiculous if it's true. The book would have cost $50 at the most to replace. Jail time for a library book?
In Australia we don't even do that for speeding/parking fines anymore.

I guess he agreed to it rather then have them call the police. It was a lotta fun to watch.

https://www.digitaljournal.com/article/25908


Heres a similar story but it happened in Wisconsin...Woman Handcuffed and Arrested for Failure To Pay For Overdue Library Books
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For the Wisconsin woman who was arrested and handcuffed for failing to pay fines for two overdue library books, it couldn?ft have been clearer that crime never pays.
Heidi Dalibor, of Grafton, Wisconsin, is obviously a criminal everyone should stay away from. She is brazen too, as according to news sources, she is the first to admit that she ignored calls and letters from her local library. (Perhaps advice from her boyfriend, the grandson of John Dillinger, led her down the wrong path.)

Ms. Dalibor, 20, also owns up to the fact that she ignored a notice to appear in municipal court or pay the pay the fine and, it would seem, the police must have had her in mind as a suspect for a bank robbery in another part of the state when they knocked on her door with a warrant for her arrest.

She said:

?gThey showed me a warrant they had for my arrest. They said they had to cuff me.?h

The embarrassment of being led away in handcuffs and being brought to the police station to be fingerprinted and photographed can only be speculated. Police Captain Joe Gabrish claims that the same procedure is followed out with every warrant regardless of the gravity of the crime. John Hansen, library director, says that annually a few dozen people are cited for failure to return books or pay fines.

It cost Ms. Dalibor about $30 for the overdue books and her mother about $175 in bail money to free her.

We all know we should return our library books, but what is next? She was certainly irresponsible and owes the money for the books, but arrest and jail time?

Will failure to report a hangnail be this woman?fs next offense while rapists and murderers stalk our city streets?

Go figure, but go pay for your overdue library books first.

Ref***in diculous..Im from Houston lol

I know right!?!?!? Geez!

Crazy.

In Kitchener?
By a teacher?
Was the school sued?
Did it make the news?

I would think that would get pretty huge publicity as that would be totally unacceptable.

At the time the school had a drug problem and the official policy was strip seaches would be allowed if the the student agreed to it or the polcie would be called---I gues for some reason he agreed to it.

Weird, it seems so against any academic institutions rules regarding youth. And to search a young teen publicly in a library?
Crazy.

Strip searches?

In the school library?

Bulls***.