Maplewood woman arrested for school thefts

A Maplewood woman was arrested Friday for allegedly stealing teachers' purses from local schools in recent months.

[Megafrog]

Glad they caught this pile of dookie!

[TonyFlash]

Nice job of using the media and the public to identify a crook by the sheriff's department. The surveillance picture was very clear that was released and it seems like all involved did a great job.

[Topck]

Something is wrong with this story. Women don't steal. How can this be?

[Rockin John]

I bet her attorney will cite poor grades given by mean teachers as a basis for her theft syndrome.

[Bob the Bilderberg]

"The Island is calling"

[Just wondering]

What does this say about the security at those buildings?

[Missing Judge]

After giving her a slap on the hands
and 2 hours of silent time in the
court room on her theft & trespassing
charges,

Judge Judy said you can go home now
only to look around and find her
purse missing!!!

I wonder what happened to that purse
she said to the court reporter!

[see him one last time]

I hope this scum bag gets the maximum sentence for her actions. Dawn Rassett is a scum bag.
Stealing from people???? Scum Bag.
I hope your read this Dawn Rassett, you scum bag.
You are a Scum Bag.

[We are so brain dead]

Wow! Here we have a woman caught stealing maybe a few hundred bucks and people want to crucify her while at the same time wall street is stealing billions upon billions from us and not much said about it, theft is theft and scum bags are scum bags for doing it, the guys on wall street should be arrested along with this Maplewood woman with the only difference being they get 200 years in prison and she gets 2 years in prison.

[Alicia]

Using your thinking, we would prosecute only the most heinous crimes and let smaller ones go.
I would suggest to you that we have to be able to trust each other's honesty even in the littlest everyday events, like believing our purses are safe in the workplace. She must receive stiff consequences, especially since it sounds like this is not her first tangle with the law.

We are so brain dead wrote:

Wow! Here we have a woman caught stealing maybe a few hundred bucks and people want to crucify her while at the same time wall street is stealing billions upon billions from us and not much said about it, theft is theft and scum bags are scum bags for doing it, the guys on wall street should be arrested along with this Maplewood woman with the only difference being they get 200 years in prison and she gets 2 years in prison.

[ZenBirdist]

So, did she just pull up to random elementary schools at lunchtime and sneak around the classrooms unnoticed? That's disturbing. I'd like to know that strangers aren't able to enter and lurk about my child's school.

[Daily Grind]

Stealing from a teacher????
Next time try stealing from someone who makes a little more money than a teacher, say a homeless person or a snowball salesman at the north pole.

[DD Austin]

School thefts-ha! Wht did she steal a couple of middle schools, a grade school and a high school? She's pretty amazing if she can steal schools!:)

[Yep]

We were victims of Dawn Rassett's theft. The whole process has been a nightmare. Dawn Rassett has written over 20 forged checks from our account all over town. We are now getting collection letters from the merchants which will subsequently affect our credit in a negative way. We are currently planning on buying a house and concerned what this might do to the process. Not to mention the axtiety over the idea of someone potentially performing identity theft on you.

This person has caused great harm to our family. I hope that she gets sentenced acordingly and she feels the same pain we have over the last 2 months.

[No team no coach]

Alicia wrote:

Using your thinking, we would prosecute only the most heinous crimes and let smaller ones go.
I would suggest to you that we have to be able to trust each other's honesty even in the littlest everyday events, like believing our purses are safe in the workplace. She must receive stiff consequences, especially since it sounds like this is not her first tangle with the law.
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Not for one second do I condone what this woman has done and I do not take lightly any crime committed against another person, I think any one who commits a crime should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, with that said, I can not understand why the American people are not out raged at the theft of billions and billions dollars being committed by fat cats on wall street, their sealing money from every American whether you want to believe it or not. They belong in jail not rewarded with multi million dollars bonuses.

[Doug the GOPer]

Topck wrote:

Something is wrong with this story. Women don't steal. How can this be?

This lady probably attended our dumbed down, prison-like MN public schools to begin with.

[here we go]

ZenBirdist wrote:

So, did she just pull up to random elementary schools at lunchtime and sneak around the classrooms unnoticed? That's disturbing. I'd like to know that strangers aren't able to enter and lurk about my child's school.

It is disturbing, the gall of this woman. But she came in during conferences, when many parents were coming and going unnoticed, so she knew what she was doing.

What this woman did is reprehensible, but with all those people wandering around, is it such a stretch to believe the staff and faculty have enough brains to lock up their stuff under such circumstances? Bad judgment on their part.

[ZenBirdist]

here we go wrote:

<quoted text>
It is disturbing, the gall of this woman. But she came in during conferences, when many parents were coming and going unnoticed, so she knew what she was doing.
What this woman did is reprehensible, but with all those people wandering around, is it such a stretch to believe the staff and faculty have enough brains to lock up their stuff under such circumstances? Bad judgment on their part.

Thank you, that's exactly the info that I was looking for. It makes so much more sense to me now. Yes, purses should have been under lock and key, but the fact that they weren't doesn't mitigate her stealing money from them. I went to Lake Elmo Elementary a veerrry long time ago, and it was a small town type school where everyone knew everyone else. It wouldn't be a stretch for me to imagine that a teacher wouldn't suspect any of the parents of her own students (the only people who should have been allowed inside her classroom) of stealing from her.

[Incredible70]

Why are we so worried sbout her stealing a few things from some schools? We have let the Department of Education steal a decent education from all of our schools through feel-good programs for years, all because they call it 'progress'.

[Bruce]

We are so brain dead wrote:

Wow! Here we have a woman caught stealing maybe a few hundred bucks and people want to crucify her while at the same time wall street is stealing billions upon billions from us and not much said about it, theft is theft and scum bags are scum bags for doing it, the guys on wall street should be arrested along with this Maplewood woman with the only difference being they get 200 years in prison and she gets 2 years in prison.

And Obama is stealing trillions. How many years should he get?