Posted on 10/15/2014 6:51:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
Police say Randle attempted to steal a tester bottle of Gucci Guilty Black cologne, worth $84, and Polo underwear worth $39.40.
FRISCO – The father of Dallas Cowboys running back Joseph Randle says his son is innocent after being arrested for shoplifting at a Dillard's store in Frisco.
"My son is not a thief, okay? He was just trying to get his baby out of there because she was clowning pretty bad. All he was going to do is take the baby out and then he was going to come back and take care of his business," Mr. Randle said in a phone call with News 8 reporter Tanya Eiserer.
Joseph Randle was arrested Monday for shoplifting at Stone Briar Mall. Frisco police say he had a tester bottle of Gucci Guilty Black cologne, worth $84, and Polo underwear, worth $39.40, concealed when he tried to leave the store.
Randle was caught by loss prevention and charged with a Class B Misdemeanor of theft, ranging from $50 to $500. He was booked into the Frisco City Jail and has since posted bond.
His father, who declined to give his first name, told News 8 that everything has been blown out of proportion and his son is a Christian boy who had his child and her mother with him at the time.
"He said they wouldn't come and wait on me so I wanted to get them outside the door so she could try to calm her down and then come back. It's as simple as that," his father said.
According to the arrest report, a Dillard's employee told police she watched a suspect - later identified as Randle - on the store's video surveillance system make a purchase at the perfume counter then walk to the underwear section and place a package of underwear in the bag from his previous purchase before walking out to the parking lot without trying to pay.
There was no mention in the police report of a child with Randle.
A store security officer told police he stopped Randle outside the store and asked him to return, then they both waited for police to arrive. The store manager told officers Randle went with him to the loss prevention office, where they recovered a two-pack of Polo underwear and a "tester" bottle of Gucci Guilty Black cologne.
After an officer arrested Randle and began taking the Cowboys player to the Frisco jail for processing, Randle told police without prompting he "should have kept walking to his car if he knew he would be arrested" and that when he saw the security officer he thought, "Alright, y'all got me," according to the arrest report.
A second officer, who came to the scene and spoke to Randle in the loss prevention office, said he asked Randle what he stole and the running back responded "some underwear and a tester bottle of cologne," and said he didn't pay for it "because he did not want to take the time to do it."
Dillard's has declined to comment on the case, saying it is now a Frisco police matter.
Dallas Cowboys Head Coach Jason Garrett had no comment on the matter Tuesday.
Randle was drafted by the Cowboys in the fifth-round of the 2013 NFL Draft out of Oklahoma State. He signed a four-year deal with the team worth roughly $2.3 million in May 2013, according to media reports.
Ping!..................
Will be interesting to see if he gets suspended, or fined, or what punishment is given out by the Cowboys or NFL.
We have seen severe penalties administered in the recent domestic violence cases.
Are we going to see punishment for this player being in trouble with the law?
We’ll see. If the NFL wants to take criminal activity seriously, all types of criminal activity, this guy needs to be sanctioned in some way.
Or was the action in domestic violence cases taken because the NFL takes such cases more seriously than shoplifting? We’ll see.
Liar.
Pff, every shoplifter will just say “I forgot to pay”, but it’s not believable when they conceal the items.
IMHO, if you steal something, you’re a thief. Period.
Well, it surely looked like stealing to the security people watching him with the cameras at Dillard’s. Maybe Dad should have told him that taking stuff without paying is stealing.
They need to pay NFL players a living wage.
He didn’t do nuffin!
Racist, racist, racist!
I love it when lame excuses don't even make sense.
Guilty Black cologne?
Is it necessary to say the obvious?
You can take the Thug outta da hood, but...
I believe him.
Sounds plausible to me also.
Heck, he even has someone who knows he is his father - which appears to be a rarity amongst the criminal class.
Great. When do the riots start?
Lying to himself so he won't feel like a failure at being a father? Was he even around to be a father?
Oh yeah,
it happens all the time.
He baby bin klownin’?
Reminds me a bit of the actress, Winona Ryder, who was charged with shoplifting.
In her case, and in this case, both people are well paid and have no trouble paying their bills. They both have the money to buy what they shoplifted, easily have enough money. There’s something else going on in their minds; it not like they are stealing food because they are poor and don’t have enough to eat.
Even if his story is true, and he needed to help his baby mama get a screaming toddler out of the store, how hard is it to set the two items down on a counter or display, take care of the family situation, then come back for the items? It’s not like they were going to walk off. And it’s not like they were irreplaceable items that somebody else might happen upon and take before he got back.
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