A slice of cheese valued at a little more than $100 has cost a policewoman her job and given the Court of Appeal the chance to rule on whether the act of shoplifting is done only when a person leaves an establishment without paying for the goods.
“This is really frightening and I really feel sad to know that a slice of cheese could be so tempting that my colleague could end up in this embarrassing situation,” one member of the police force told The Sunday Gleaner after news broke that the policewoman had lost her appeal against her conviction for simple larceny.Read More….http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20161002/cop-sliced-100-cheese-policewoman-loses-job-simple-larceny-appeal-fails