Electric car owner charged with stealing 5 cents worth of juice

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11. Two key points, one obvious and one maybe not so obvious to everyone:

First, the article indicates that the police did not ask whether the school wished to press charges. Red flag number one. "Theft by taking without consent."

Second, and an even bigger red flag, IMO, is that after filing the police report eleven days elapsed. What does that mean, though? Why is that important? Well, during those eleven days at least a police officer or police officers took a look at that, weighed their options carefully, conducted some form of investigation and considered that they were making a solid arrest which would, presumably, not bring shame onto their department. Which is nonsensical. As Kamooneh pointed out, the "Theft by taking without consent" when applied to drinking water from a spigot (something which he alleges he witnessed, coincidentally) is the same thing- and yet the police had no interest in pursing that matter.

Why?

That's a great question, IMO. I'm thinking the answer to that question is either known to the police chief and that if I could wave a magic wand, I'd find out that they were in some discussion with prosecutors/council about it before moving ahead.

Will this blow up in the Chamblee police department's face? Since the school did not indicate whether it wanted to press charges (hint: Probably not) this makes the police and their higher-ups in the department look pretty damned shady.

Selective enforcement of laws like this is always a dead giveaway there's something else going on.

PB