Woman Sentenced for Threatening a Clothing Store Employee With a Knife
Press release from the District Attorney’s Office:
Humboldt County District Attorney Maggie Fleming announced that today 41-year-old Barbara Jones of Eureka pled guilty to robbery, admitted the use of a knife and admitted she had a prior “strike” conviction for robbery from 2008. Judge Feeney sentenced her to 7 years in prison.
On July 13, 2017, an employee of a store in Old Town Eureka observed Jones trying to steal clothing. When the employee approached, Jones pulled a knife and told her to “back up.” The store employee did so and Jones then fled with the property. The store employee notified the Eureka Police Department (EPD) of the incident and the Department broadcast a description of the robber. Within an hour a probation officer observed a woman who matched that description; EPD responded to his call and took Jones into custody after Jones was identified by the store employee.
Theft of property worth less than $950 is a misdemeanor charge that may result in local jail time. But use of force or fear in taking property is robbery, a felony that can lead to a prison term of 2 to 5 years. Additional factors such as use of a knife and prior convictions can lengthen the sentence.
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Eureka is the nicest place on the planet no where comes close
Wow. The murderers bail out, the crazy drug addicts get room and board…
In spite of what you may believe, prison is not “room & board”
It is a horrible place, and if this woman survives it, she will return to society completely traumatized and also unemployable because of her prison record. She will have no skills & no hope.
I’m sure this pleases you, but it does not help our society in any real way.
This.
For the time she is actually in jail, she will not be threatening people in stores with knives. It may not be much but there it is. It is not all about her.
This woman has already been to jail so she probably knows the drill. She also is likely to have gone through diversion programs before that conviction for robbery, which means she threaten harm in the course of theft. Just like this time.
This isn’t her first time. I don’t believe the individual claimed she was going to a spa — maybe look up the definition of ‘room and board’, I believe this may qualify in a loose term.
“room and board” being a safe and sober house
Do you know something that is not stated anywhere in this article? That a person stealing clothing and threatening the store employee with a knife was really a ‘a scared, traumatized victim?’ And not a just self centered, brutal repeat criminal?
I can see you identify thoroughly with the convicted. But are there any facts beyond this?
And that POS with the SL face tattoo got 7yrs for his list?
Glad to hear justice has been served. Hopefully, she will be able to learn from this experience, and do better in the future.
Save your sympathy for victim not victimizer. One chooses whether to hurt or help others, traumatizing others is wrong.