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Caroline County man accused of stealing pizza, chicken and hot dogs from sister's freezer. Date published: 7/24/2003
It might be awhile before David S. Richards eats another one of his sister's meals. The 18-year-old Caroline resident was charged with petty larceny yesterday after his older sister accused him of stealing food from her freezer, authorities said. Sheriff's Capt. Scott Moser said the family decided to call police because "they felt he needs to learn a lesson about taking other people's property." According to Sheriff Homer Johnson, the unusual case began when Richards went to his sister's home on Durham Drive in Ruther Glen last week and asked her mother-in-law if he could come in and look for a pair of sunglasses. When the sister's husband got home that evening, Johnson said, he went to the freezer to get a pizza for dinner, and it was gone. The sister, Amy Turkette, then asked her mother-in-law to make chicken teriyaki instead. That was missing from the freezer, as well. Turkette went to the freezer and found that her hot dogs were also gone. She then remembered talking to her mother earlier that day and learning that her brother had eaten some pizza, hot dogs and chicken teriyaki. Johnson said Turkette later went to her family's nearby home and found her freezer bags in the trash. She also found a trash can full of water upstairs that had apparently been used to thaw out the pilfered food. After Turkette and other family members talked to Richards and got no satisfaction, they called the Sheriff's Office and got a warrant for his arrest. Moser said Richards continues to deny taking the food, though he admitted to authorities that "the facts look awful bad for me."
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