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Employee at Wal-Mart in Franklin charged with theft
The Franklin Police Department received a complaint Friday about a possible employee theft at Wal-Mart.
Police were told that the employee, Timothy Youngblood, 43, who worked in sporting goods, stole about $5,000 worth of merchandise over the span of a few months, according to a news release from Franklin police.
Two Franklin officers watched store surveillance video, and officers recovered about $1,068 worth of Wal-Mart property from Youngblood’s East Cedar Street home. Police found sporting goods, tents, appliances, cookware, gourmet coffee and high-end coffee brewers.
Youngblood was charged with theft by unlawful taking over $500 but less than $10,000. His wife, Shawn M. Snay-Youngblood,
Pennsylvania’s top court rules $75,000 fine for employee’s theft at casino illegal
The state Supreme Court on Tuesday found that a mandatory $75,000 fine imposed upon a poker dealer convicted of stealing $200 from the Rivers Casino is unconstitutional.
“The fine at issue here, both in an absolute sense and in a comparative sense, is strikingly disproportionate to the manner in which other crimes are punished in Pennsylvania. That the fine is mandatory merely exacerbates the disproportion,” wrote Chief Justice Ronald Castille in the unanimous, 33-page opinion.
Matthew Eisenberg, 29, was charged with misdemeanor theft under the Gaming Act after taking $200 in poker chips from Nov. 26-30, 2010, from the gaming table where he worked at the Rivers.
Knox Trustee’s ‘ghost employee’ found guilty of theft
A Knox County jury on Friday agreed with the state: Former Trustee’s Office employee Delbert Morgan was a “mystery,” a “phantom” and a “ghost.”
He rarely if ever worked. And yet he collected almost $152,000 in salary and benefits during the four years he was with the county’s tax collection office.
The jury, after a two-week long trial, found the 58-year-old Grainger County businessman guilty of felony theft, a charge that is punishable by eight to 12 years in prison.
Morgan, who can also receive probation, will be sentenced on Oct. 23.
“He may have done a little work, but the state submits that it was bad from the beginning,” prosecutor Bill Bright told the jury during closing arguments Friday.
Fellow prosecutor John Gill agreed.
After the verdict was read, he said that Bright “did an unbelievable job making a complicated case clear.”
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