Midland County judge dismisses charges in alleged Pepperidge Farm stuffing caper

The gentleman that was accused of this, had also lost his 3 year old daughter in a freak accident from a home made game during the "Bentley Days" several years ago. Bentley Days is like a town festival etc.



By LaNia Coleman | The Bay City Times
December 03, 2009, 7:21PM

MIDLAND — A Midland County Circuit Court judge has dismissed charges against a Bentley man accused of stealing nearly 4,000 bags of Pepperidge Farm stuffing.

Chief Circuit Judge Jonathan E. Lauderbach on Thursday dismissed one count of larceny less than $1,000 against Stephen M. Shoultes, 34.

Shoultes originally was charged with embezzling less than $20,000, a 15-year felony. In a plea deal that his lawyer, Jason P. Gower, negotiated with prosecutors, Shoultes tendered a no contest plea to the one-year misdemeanor and received a delayed sentence.

Since Shoultes completed the year with no additional incidents, Lauderbach cleared him of all wrong-doing.

Gower said his client, a trucker for an independent distributor of Pepperidge Farm, kept the goods, destined for stores up north, at his home over night so he wouldn’t have to go to the Midland warehouse to pick them up then backtrack to make the deliveries.

“What concerns me, and should concern the public, is the mentality that seems to rest on the assumption that when a police report is generated someone must have committed a crime,” Gower said.

“This case was nothing more than an administrative procedure that wasn’t followed by Mr. Shoultes. He would have no use — no use — for over 200 (cases) of Pepperidge Farm stuffing.”

Authorities accused Shoultes of taking 217 cases of stuffing mix. Each case contained 18 bags of stuffing.

I don't like that stuffing anyways so he could have feed it to the dogs for all i would of cared, that shit is gross yuk.

Thats corny.

North Star 1 wrote:I don't like that stuffing anyways so he could have feed it to the dogs for all i would of cared, that shit is gross yuk.

Yes, Mike, I agree... It is nasty stuffing lol