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My South Florida arrest, charged with Grand Larceny >500 - <5000 for being unable to pay restaurant tab.
I was at Hard Rock Casino playing Black Jack with my G-Friend, while playing I had been socializing with a gentleman sitting next to my G-Friend. After a few hours of loosing and socializing, the gentlemen in question along with his friend had asked me and my G-Friend if we would care to accompany them to one of the Casino's restaurants in which they offered to pay. We accepted and proceeded to Restaurant which after seated the gentlemen ordered for themselves as well asking us what we wanted in from of waiter.
We both ordered seafood ranging from 35.00 - 50-00 a plate, the gentlemen ordered 2 expensive bottles of wine along with placing their own orders. After about an half hour into the meal one of the guys nose started to bleed profusely, the nose bleeders friend grabbed his cloth napkin, placed it to his nose and told him to apply pressure, they both than left the table telling us they were going to the bathroom to address the nose bleed.
30 minutes had passed by when waiter came to the table with the check and asked us if that was all, I replied by telling the waiter I didn't know if the guys where done yet that they were both in the restroom taking care of a bloody nose. The waiter replied back telling us he had seen them both leave the restaurant. Of course at that point we both felt our stomachs drop for the bill was over a 1000.00 and we knew there was no way in hell we could pay if these guys left us here, so we explained to the waiter what had happened and that the gentlemen in question where the ones who ordered and where the ones paying the bill. Waiter than brings manager over to the table in which the manager ask us how we intended to pay, our response was that we had only ordered fish and the guys who were paying for this meal had left, whether they did it on purpose sticking us with the tab or something serious had happened to his friend in which he took him to the hospital. Anyways all was explained to the manger however; he did not care and demanded his money or we would go to jail. Only thing we could do at this point was too offer payment for our meals only, which we did, still manager denies partial payment and says if we did not have the funds to cover entire meal he had to call police. Nothing we could do at this point for we did not have the money to pay this large of a tab, we did insist that if he allowed us to leave we could make payments to cover the meal over the next 3 months, another wards we tried to make some kind of payment arrangements that fit our budgets. This manager would not budge, so tribal police was called, after which we explained exactly the same as we did the manager, the cop asked the manager if he would allow some kind of payment over time which he refused along with a rebuttal asking the cop to call county sheriff to have us thrown in jail. Tribal Cop did what manager had asked, shortly thereafter sheriff came arrested us and brought us to jail where we sat for 18 hours before bailing out.
So those who read this fully understand, I'm a God fearing women who has never hurt anyone, I have never, ever had any issue with the law before. In fact I have only received 4 traffic tickets my whole life which is the most I have been in trouble with the law. I was really traumatized by this experience, I had multiple panic attacks while in jail those 18 hours, and it was pure hell. I just can't believe that this can happen to an innocent person in this country. I looked up the Statue, if I'm not misreading it; I believe it states that my inability to pay the bill had to be premeditated, malicious, Intentional or dishonest. The situation was quite obvious for both staff and manager, no one tried to leave and we where both trying to work out payment over time.
All I know is that I went to jail for something that I had no control over, as well going for a crime which I did not commit. The manager did not have to demand we be thrown in jail for the situation was extremely obvious and no ill will was ever perpetrated. I just want someone to be held accountable, someone to pay for what has happened to me. My innocence has been stripped from me; I now have an arrest record in which society will make judgment. Who would you hire to work with your kids, someone with clean record, no arrest, or someone with clean record that had one arrest? The choice is obvious, now I'm always going to be last to be picked for a job. This will have major bearing on what I do for a living. I need to find a way to reconcile. This arrest has to be cleared off my permanent record.
Please, if anyone can help, I want to hold someone accountable, preferably the manager of restaurant or casino. I also want to know how to prevent this from hurting someone else that might find themselves in similar circumstances. I will write whoever it takes, Congress, Senate, Judge, Attorney, Mayor or Governor. I just need to be pointed on the right path. If anything I want to make sure this never happens again to a decent law abiding citizen such as me. Thank you all in advance, God Bless.
On a side note, I would think this case would be slam dunk, much less ADA wanting to pursue it however; just in case I'm wrong, how would I go about getting this dismissed?
After research I was thinking speedy trial and motion to dismiss, if I'm close, what would I say in the motion, or how to phrase properly? Thanks again.
My South Florida arrest, charged with Grand Larceny >500 - <5000 for being unable to pay restaurant tab.
I was at Hard Rock Casino playing Black Jack with my G-Friend, while playing I had been socializing with a gentleman sitting next to my G-Friend. After a few hours of loosing and socializing, the gentlemen in question along with his friend had asked me and my G-Friend if we would care to accompany them to one of the Casino's restaurants in which they offered to pay. We accepted and proceeded to Restaurant which after seated the gentlemen ordered for themselves as well asking us what we wanted in from of waiter.
We both ordered seafood ranging from 35.00 - 50-00 a plate, the gentlemen ordered 2 expensive bottles of wine along with placing their own orders. After about an half hour into the meal one of the guys nose started to bleed profusely, the nose bleeders friend grabbed his cloth napkin, placed it to his nose and told him to apply pressure, they both than left the table telling us they were going to the bathroom to address the nose bleed.
30 minutes had passed by when waiter came to the table with the check and asked us if that was all, I replied by telling the waiter I didn't know if the guys where done yet that they were both in the restroom taking care of a bloody nose. The waiter replied back telling us he had seen them both leave the restaurant. Of course at that point we both felt our stomachs drop for the bill was over a 1000.00 and we knew there was no way in hell we could pay if these guys left us here, so we explained to the waiter what had happened and that the gentlemen in question where the ones who ordered and where the ones paying the bill. Waiter than brings manager over to the table in which the manager ask us how we intended to pay, our response was that we had only ordered fish and the guys who were paying for this meal had left, whether they did it on purpose sticking us with the tab or something serious had happened to his friend in which he took him to the hospital. Anyways all was explained to the manger however; he did not care and demanded his money or we would go to jail. Only thing we could do at this point was too offer payment for our meals only, which we did, still manager denies partial payment and says if we did not have the funds to cover entire meal he had to call police. Nothing we could do at this point for we did not have the money to pay this large of a tab, we did insist that if he allowed us to leave we could make payments to cover the meal over the next 3 months, another wards we tried to make some kind of payment arrangements that fit our budgets. This manager would not budge, so tribal police was called, after which we explained exactly the same as we did the manager, the cop asked the manager if he would allow some kind of payment over time which he refused along with a rebuttal asking the cop to call county sheriff to have us thrown in jail. Tribal Cop did what manager had asked, shortly thereafter sheriff came arrested us and brought us to jail where we sat for 18 hours before bailing out.
So those who read this fully understand, I'm a God fearing women who has never hurt anyone, I have never, ever had any issue with the law before. In fact I have only received 4 traffic tickets my whole life which is the most I have been in trouble with the law. I was really traumatized by this experience, I had multiple panic attacks while in jail those 18 hours, and it was pure hell. I just can't believe that this can happen to an innocent person in this country. I looked up the Statue, if I'm not misreading it; I believe it states that my inability to pay the bill had to be premeditated, malicious, Intentional or dishonest. The situation was quite obvious for both staff and manager, no one tried to leave and we where both trying to work out payment over time.
All I know is that I went to jail for something that I had no control over, as well going for a crime which I did not commit. The manager did not have to demand we be thrown in jail for the situation was extremely obvious and no ill will was ever perpetrated. I just want someone to be held accountable, someone to pay for what has happened to me. My innocence has been stripped from me; I now have an arrest record in which society will make judgment. Who would you hire to work with your kids, someone with clean record, no arrest, or someone with clean record that had one arrest? The choice is obvious, now I'm always going to be last to be picked for a job. This will have major bearing on what I do for a living. I need to find a way to reconcile. This arrest has to be cleared off my permanent record.
Please, if anyone can help, I want to hold someone accountable, preferably the manager of restaurant or casino. I also want to know how to prevent this from hurting someone else that might find themselves in similar circumstances. I will write whoever it takes, Congress, Senate, Judge, Attorney, Mayor or Governor. I just need to be pointed on the right path. If anything I want to make sure this never happens again to a decent law abiding citizen such as me. Thank you all in advance, God Bless.
On a side note, I would think this case would be slam dunk, much less ADA wanting to pursue it however; just in case I'm wrong, how would I go about getting this dismissed?
After research I was thinking speedy trial and motion to dismiss, if I'm close, what would I say in the motion, or how to phrase properly? Thanks again.
