A county-sponsored vacation may be in this man’s future

By Doug Page | Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 12:34 PM

The gentleman, well-known to the big-box retailer and Englewood police, attempted to push a shopping cart loaded with $267 of merchandise out of the store without paying a penny, according to police reports.

Dispatchers informed the officers the gentleman would likely complain of chest pains when arrested, if history was any indication.

After he was handcuffed, searched and arrested for misdemeanor theft, the gentleman — no surprise here — complained of chest pains. A medic unit was dispatched, and the gentleman requested he be taken to a nearby hospital.

Meanwhile, a check of the retailer’s records found the gentleman had been arrested eight times in the retailer’s Dayton-area stores since 2008. According to the retailer’s records, the gentleman had been barred In April from all the retailer’s stores nationwide.

The medic crew then reported when they arrived at the hospital, the gentleman said he was fine, signed a release and left. Efforts to contact the gentleman were unsuccessful because he gave police the phone number of another person.

Police asked that the gentleman be informed the additional charge, criminal trespassing, when he shows up in court on the theft charge.

Because he is on probation for a previous trespassing charge, one could assume he is about to go on a county-sponsored vacation in the grey-bar motel.

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