Stephen Douglas Urban, 37, of Walkers Road, Darien, is charged with grand larceny, 4th. Walker is accused of picking up a wallet that contained two debit cards from the floor of Walmart that was dropped by another shopper. Rather than turn the wallet in to customer service, Urban allegedly searched through the wallet and discarded it, rendering it unrecoverable by the wallet's owner.
Luis Ortiz, 42, of Batavia, is charged with DWI, driving with a BAC of .08 or greater. Ortiz was stopped for allegedly speeding on Southwestern Boulevard, West Seneca, by State Police as part of a DWI detail in conjunction with the Buffalo Bills game on Sunday.
Coretta M. Pitts, 46, of Batavia, is charged with acting in a manner injurious to a child less than 17 years old; endangering the welfare of a child; and criminal possession of a controlled substance, 7th. Pitts was arrested by State Police as a result of an investigation into an alleged domestic incident involving a 13-year-old child. In the course of the investigation, troopers allegedly found two glass pipes containing cocaine residue. Pitts was jailed on $1,000 bail or $2,000 bond.
Harold Chinn, 49, of North Main Street, Oakfield, is charged with petit larceny. Chinn is accused of taking the mobile phone of another customer at Walmart after the customer left the phone behind on a counter top at checkout.
Jennifer Lynn Sprague-Clark, 31, of Vine Street, Batavia, is charged with assault, 2nd, criminal possession of a weapon, 3rd, and menacing, 2nd. Sprague-Clark was arrested by Niagara Falls PD on a warrant for alleged failure to appear on the listed charges. Sprague-Clark was jailed pending arraignment.
Joseph Michael Marranco, 43, of Walnut Street, Batavia, is charged with petit larceny. Marranco is accused of shoplifting $209.96 worth of merchandise from Kmart.
Michele Antonia Martinez, 45, of Applegate Drive, Medina, is charged with petit larceny. Martinez is accused of shoplifting at Kmart.
Andrea Marie Gray, 36, of South Main Street, Batavia, is charged with two counts of criminal contempt and resisting arrest. Gray allegedly used profanity and became combative while being escorted from Batavia City Court. While being arrested, she was allegedly combative and had to be restrained.
Walker is accused? I think
Walker is accused? I think it is urban. I do not understand how someone can do that. Guess he learned the hard way.
"Rather than turn the wallet
"Rather than turn the wallet in to customer service, Urban allegedly searched through the wallet and discarded it, rendering it unrecoverable by the wallet's owner."
Wait a minute, he didn't try to use the debit cards, he looked through the wallet and then discarded it. That doesn't make him a paragon of human virtue, but since when is throwing something away that another person lost through their own negligence grand larceny? There either has to be a lot more to this story or a first year law student could get this guy off.
i assume this was the guy who
i assume this was the guy who a walmart employee saw the person drop the wallet and was attempting to retrieve it however a gentleman picked it up and claimed he would turn it in. Store cameras captured his image as he exited....so....
http://thebatavian.com/howard
http://thebatavian.com/howard-owens/man-who-may-have-left-walmart-lost-…
Since this:
Since this: http://ypdcrime.com/penal.law/article155.htm#p155.30
relevant section is 155.05 2b A person acquires lost property when he exercises control over property of another which he knows to have been lost or mislaid, or to have been delivered under a mistake as to the identity of the recipient or the nature or amount of the property, without taking reasonable measures to return such property to the owner
In short, he picked up the wallet which he knew had been lost and instead of giving to the greeter, or taking it to the service desk, which would be the reasonable measures to return it, he threw it out after rifling through it. It's grand larceny because the code for grand larceny directly calls out debit and credit cards as being property worthy of grand larceny.
FWIW: At the time of the post
FWIW: At the time of the post yesterday, I wasn't able to immediately confirm the connection between our previous post and the arrest of Urban (which is why I didn't link to the previous post) Urban is the same suspect pictured in the previous post, according to Investigator William Ferrando. The post generated at least two telephone calls with tips, plus Mr. Urban apparently called himself within two hours of the post.
Lorie, Because the wallet
Lorie, Because the wallet contained two debit cards, under the law, Urban committed grand larceny in the 4th degree.
S 155.30 Grand larceny in the fourth degree.
A person is guilty of grand larceny in the fourth degree when he
steals property and when:
4. The property consists of a credit card or debit card;
My wife worked the Service
My wife worked the Service Desk at Wal-Mart for years. Most good people go out of their way to return wallets, purses, cell phones, keys etc and without a second thought.
There is an old saying “You get what your hand calls for” and Stephen Douglas Urban is no exception.
I can remember a time,
I can remember a time, recently, when my wife and I were checking out at our local Wal*Mart, at the self checkout kiosk, and when we got home found a bottle of nail color in the bag that she did not purchase.
I took it back to the store because it was the right thing to do.
I didn't mean to imply he
I didn't mean to imply he should not have been charged. Clearly what he did was wrong. He knew it, and lets face it, no one wants to lose their wallet.