New Jersey judge bans woman from entering any Wal-Mart store in the country
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A judge in Mount Olive Township, New Jersey, has banned a shoplifter from ever shopping at a Wal-Mart store anywhere in the country.
The defendant, 64-year-old Johanna Cassimore of Hopatcong, New Jersey, tells the New York Daily News she plans to appeal the sentence. “It was stupid. I disagree and I’m appealing it,” Cassimore said. “The judge can’t say that. He doesn’t own Wal-Mart.”
The sentence by Judge Brian Levine also requires Cassimore to pay $258 in fines and to complete 10 hours of community service, according to the New York Daily News, NewJerseyHills.com and NJ.com.
Cassimore was arrested after security personnel said she was trying to conceal $78 worth of vitamins.
An administrator for the township court told the New York Daily News that Wal-Mart had presented Levine with a Wal-Mart document that Cassimore previously signed agreeing never to enter another Wal-Mart. The prosecutor had sought the ban to remind Cassimore of her previous agreement, said the administrator, Michelle Ambrecht.
Cassimore told the New York Daily News that she signed the agreement because she is “stupid” and she had never shoplifted before.
