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BLUE ASH, Ohio -- Charges were dropped Wednesday evening against an 89-year-old Blue Ash woman charged with stealing a football from some neighbor children.
Edna Jester was charged earlier this week with petty theft for refusing to return a child's football that landed in her yard, but City Solicitor Mark Vanderlaan and City Prosecutor Mark Arnzen said they lacked sufficient culpability to prosecute.
Police said Jester and her neighbors had been involved in an ongoing dispute over children playing in her yard.
Blue Ash Police Capt. James Schaffer said Monday that police warned Jester twice and finally arrested her after she refused to accept a citation.
Schaffer said the woman told police to handcuff her, but they wouldn't do that.
Jester had been scheduled to appear next month in mayor's court, but city officials will attempt to mediate the dispute through the police department?s neighborhood liaison program.
A conviction for petty theft could have brought Jester up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
http://www.wlwt.com/cnn-news/17782609/detail.html
amazing. I really can't beleive she was even arrested. think the cops are going after the wrong party. they should be yelling at the kids for having the ball go onto her yard. its bothering her and they should stop doing it.
at least they dropped the charges. I don't blame her for keeping the damn ball. it has to be annoying to keep playing fetch for some impolite kids.
Edna Jester was charged earlier this week with petty theft for refusing to return a child's football that landed in her yard, but City Solicitor Mark Vanderlaan and City Prosecutor Mark Arnzen said they lacked sufficient culpability to prosecute.
Police said Jester and her neighbors had been involved in an ongoing dispute over children playing in her yard.
Blue Ash Police Capt. James Schaffer said Monday that police warned Jester twice and finally arrested her after she refused to accept a citation.
Schaffer said the woman told police to handcuff her, but they wouldn't do that.
Jester had been scheduled to appear next month in mayor's court, but city officials will attempt to mediate the dispute through the police department?s neighborhood liaison program.
A conviction for petty theft could have brought Jester up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
http://www.wlwt.com/cnn-news/17782609/detail.html
amazing. I really can't beleive she was even arrested. think the cops are going after the wrong party. they should be yelling at the kids for having the ball go onto her yard. its bothering her and they should stop doing it.
at least they dropped the charges. I don't blame her for keeping the damn ball. it has to be annoying to keep playing fetch for some impolite kids.
