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(Scroll down for video) A woman called police to report her son had stolen her pop-tart.
The Charlotte, North Carolina woman called police and had her son arrested after he took her pop-tart without permission.
When police arrived to the house they learned that the boy stole the pop-tart which belonged to his mother. The 13-year-old boy was arrested and faces a misdemeanor theft charge, after his mother, 37-year-old Latasha Renee Love, claimed he took the pastries from the home without asking.
The police report notes that the suspect stole pop-tarts which belonged to his mother at their home at 530 Goldstaff Lane. The boy was under juvenile arrested. Officers described the stolen goods as “foodstuffs valued at $5”. Love, who reportedly has had some discipline issues with her son before this incident, apparently decided to have him arrested to teach him a lesson.
“Most people in the neighborhood believe the mother did the wrong thing by having her son arrested, now, he has a juvenile record for being a thief. How is this theft anyway? The mother is suppose to feed her child,” Theresa Robinson, 32, of Charlotte, North Carolina, told YourJewishNews.com after the incident.
This is not the first time that a pop-tart has gotten a child in trouble. A little boy was suspended from school after his half eaten pop-tart appeared to be shaped like a gun. The student in Baltimore, Maryland was suspended during breakfast.
7-year-old Josh Welch was eating a pop-tart in school. A teacher saw the pastry and said that she thought it looked like it was shaping up into a weapon.
The teacher also said she heard Welch saying: "bang bang", as he held it. That was enough to get him suspended. Welch said that his teacher has it all wrong. "It was already shaped like a rectangle when I took it out from the box and I kept biting off from the top. It had the shape of a gun, but it was not," the boy said.
Welch said that he was trying to shape the pop-tart into a mountain but was stopped by the teacher. The school sent a letter at the end of the day to parents explaining what happened and why they thought it was a threat, saying: "A student who uses food to make a gesture is inappropriate.” Welch was suspended for two days. Mobile video not loading? Click here to view