Felon gets 99 years for stealing cell phone


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WACO ? A man has been sentenced to 99 years in prison for stealing a cell phone.

Glenn Alvin Reed, 31, was convicted of robbery Thursday for stealing a cellular phone from a man's truck last fall and then hitting him several times when he demanded its return.

Jurors, who deliberated about 15 minutes, convicted Reed as a habitual criminal because he has prior felony convictions for injury to an elderly person and robbery. That bumped the minimum sentence from five to 25 years for Reed, who rejected a 15-year plea bargain offer from prosecutors.

Reed also has 15 misdemeanor convictions dating to 1991, including 12 criminal trespassing convictions.

Reed, who testified during his trial against the wishes of his court-appointed attorneys, frequently went into profanity-laced tirades and told jurors he didn't care if they gave him life in prison.

"There's things I choose to do, like, if I go in a store and choose to take a Snicker's bar," Reed testified. "If you catch me, you catch me. If not, I'm going to go home and eat it up and go on about my business, dog."

Four years ago, Reed walked up behind retired Texas Ranger Capt. Bob Prince outside the McLennan County courthouse annex and said he was robbing him. Prince decided not to shoot Reed because he could tell he was unarmed, the former Ranger testified during Reed's cell phone robbery trial.

Prince easily took Reed into custody, and he later was sentenced to two years in prison, according to court records.

Reed made an obscene hand gesture toward Prince as the former Ranger left the witness stand.

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"That bumped the minimum sentence from five to 25 years for Reed, who rejected a 15-year plea bargain offer from prosecutors."

Obviously after the tool made some disruptions, they went for the max sentence. The min is only 25 years.

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That bumped thminimum sentenceb> from five to 25 years for Reed, who rejected a 15-year plea bargain offer from prosecutors.

And it syays right at the top of the article he got sentenced to 99 years(life sentence)

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And it syays right at the top of the article he got sentenced to 99 years(life sentence)

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And you don't think it's odd that they didn't even mention the number 99 in the article at all :/ .... kind of unprofessional.

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And you don't think it's odd that they didn't even mention the number 99 in the article at all :/ .... kind of unprofessional.

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Umm... it says he got 99 years in the first sentence of the article. Geez... Some people need to get some reading glasses in here. :)

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now that's just wrong. you can't take away someones life because of some material things :/

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read the article, this guy is a complete moron. and its not just for stealing a cell phone.

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Reed, who testified during his trial against the wishes of his court-appointed attorneys, frequently went into profanity-laced tirades and told jurors he didn't care if they gave him life in prison.

"There's things I choose to do, like, if I go in a store and choose to take a Snicker's bar," Reed testified. "If you catch me, you catch me. If not, I'm going to go home and eat it up and go on about my business, dog."

DUMB!!!

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now that's just wrong. you can't take away someones life because of some material things :/

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Sure you can. And they just did!

I think it's good. If the law was stricter like this one ACTUAL crime like theft/GBH/ABH/GTA etc. the world would be safer.

S'long as they don't give people stupidly long jail sentences for speeding.

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"There's things I choose to do, like, if I go in a store and choose to take a Snicker's bar," Reed testified. "If you catch me, you catch me. If not, I'm going to go home and eat it up and go on about my business, dog."

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not going anywhere for a while? lol

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They didn't convicted him to 99 years, but he says he didn't care if he is sentenced to life. So they granted his wish really!

In a nutshell, this guy is so dumb he even says something like "I don't care if you sentence me to life"

You can't say **** like that to a jury or judge.

I would do the same.

Oh, you don't care? What do I care if you don't care?

Better yet, why don't you die? You are waste of Tax payers money!

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Imagine living in a 12x8 cell for rest of his dumbass life for stealing a cell phone.

This moron definitely lack brain cells, cuz nobody else would be saying "I don't care if you convict me to life in prison!" to jury & judge.

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