Widow, 80, spends night in jail

[teach1st]

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/06/25/Hillsborough/Widow__80__spends_nig.shtml

By SHANNON COLAVECCHIO-VAN SICKLER, St. Petersburg Times
Published June 25, 2004

TAMPA - Elizabeth E. Milton is an 80-year-old widow with a weak heart. She is a great-grandmother who weighs all of 105 pounds, has arthritis and carries 15 types of medication in her purse.

According to records, she has no criminal history in Florida. Her children say the closest she has ever gotten to criminal activity was when she worked in a gunpowder factory in Kentucky decades ago.

Her only addiction? Soap operas.

But Wednesday night Milton was arrested, put in the back of a sheriff's patrol car and carted off to the Orient Road Jail. Her crime, according to the deputy who pulled her car over for a random license tag search, was a bad check written almost 19 years ago for less than $150.

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[displacedtexan]

1. This just makes me sick!

I'm speechless!

[SheilaT]

2. Wouldn't you think

a sheriff and his deputies would have a little more common sense than that? I realize that part of Florida is just crawling with older folks, but still....

[StClone]

3. Good thing she didn't resist arrest

A Darth Vader smack down would have ensued in the Jebana Republic.

[x_y_no]

4. I don't know what the statute of limitations is ...

But it's got to be a lot less than 19 years!

Yet another example of no common sense.

[JohnLocke]

5. Welcome to Jeb's Florida.

Enjoy your stay. :eyes:

[OutOfIraqNow]

6. Yet one more reason...

...why W and his brother need to go home.