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27th October 2010, 05:43 PM
$200K bail for man charged with stealing parking boxes (http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/10/man-charged-with-stealing-parking-boxes.html)
October 27, 2010 6:06 PM | No Comments | UPDATED STORY
It'll take more than a few parking meters to cover the $200,000 bail for a West Side man charged with knocking over meters with his van in order to steal the contents.
At a bond hearing today, prosecutors said Jeffrey Kaput literally knocked over four of the 200-pound boxes, valued at more than $6,000 each, earlier this month.
"He would knock the boxes over with his van, at which point he would place them in the back of the van and remove the cash box," Assistant State's Attorney Lorraine Scaduto said in court. She did not say how much money Kaput allegedly recovered from the meters.
Kaput, 38, of the 5500 block of West Cortez Street, faces four counts of felony theft. Police say another 16 boxes have been filched in similar fashion since mid-September, most of them from the city's Northwest Side.
Kaput was arrested late Monday at in the 5500 block of West Augusta Boulevard by an Area 5 robbery mission team after a witness called police to describe a vehicle that had collided with one of the parking boxes, according to a police report.
Kaput has no previous record in Illinois but does have a minor criminal history in Arizona.
"You should have stayed there - the weather's warmer," Circuit Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr. said to Kaput before setting bail at $200,000.
Made me think of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyOHuddEp14
But a $200,000 bail for 6000 worth of damage? Oh, that's right, he "hurt" gov revenues.
October 27, 2010 6:06 PM | No Comments | UPDATED STORY
It'll take more than a few parking meters to cover the $200,000 bail for a West Side man charged with knocking over meters with his van in order to steal the contents.
At a bond hearing today, prosecutors said Jeffrey Kaput literally knocked over four of the 200-pound boxes, valued at more than $6,000 each, earlier this month.
"He would knock the boxes over with his van, at which point he would place them in the back of the van and remove the cash box," Assistant State's Attorney Lorraine Scaduto said in court. She did not say how much money Kaput allegedly recovered from the meters.
Kaput, 38, of the 5500 block of West Cortez Street, faces four counts of felony theft. Police say another 16 boxes have been filched in similar fashion since mid-September, most of them from the city's Northwest Side.
Kaput was arrested late Monday at in the 5500 block of West Augusta Boulevard by an Area 5 robbery mission team after a witness called police to describe a vehicle that had collided with one of the parking boxes, according to a police report.
Kaput has no previous record in Illinois but does have a minor criminal history in Arizona.
"You should have stayed there - the weather's warmer," Circuit Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr. said to Kaput before setting bail at $200,000.
Made me think of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyOHuddEp14
But a $200,000 bail for 6000 worth of damage? Oh, that's right, he "hurt" gov revenues.