Fort Worth Man Gets 80 Years For Buying A Hot Dog With Fake Money

November 18, 2011 8:45 PM

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FORT WORTH (AP/CBSDFW) – A Fort Worth man has been sentenced to 80 years in prison for trying to buy movie theater hot dogs with counterfeit cash.

Charles Cleveland Nowden was sentenced Friday, two days after being convicted of forgery.

Two years ago Nowden used a fake $20 bill when trying to buy hot dogs, popcorn and soft drinks at a Mansfield movie theater. Prosecutors say after his arrest, a police officer found more counterfeit bills worth $120 tucked into a wrapper of one of the hot dogs.

Prosecutors presented evidence about other theft cases pending against the 48-year-old in Tarrant and Lamar counties, including being linked by DNA to the theft of an 18-wheeler in 2010.

The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office says jurors also heard about Nowden’s federal convictions for bank fraud and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

In a release to the media, Tarrant County’s assistant District Attorney Dawn Ferguson said Nowden was “a career cargo-thief who needed to be brought to justice.”

Nowden must serve at least 15 years before he’s eligible for parole.

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Hootex

You reap what you sow…either now or later.

aunt – bea

He went from making bills, to making license plates…. cool !
harold Mellon

Not if you steal millions like George Bush’s cronies and their bankster friends. They get rewarded and that’s why we need a revolution.

Virtual Twit

Yep. I knew it was all Bush’s fault this guy’s a freaking thief.
i KNEW it!

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jmhughes

how misleading to just mention a hotdog. that why people mistrust the authorities

1percenter

The authorities didn’t mislead, channel 11 reporter did.

FuManchu

And Matt Drudge. “SHOCK! 80 YEARS FOR BUYING A HOT DOG! OMFG!”

What a steaming load that guy is. His headlines are all too often that way.
nunya

Actually, I think matt drudge illustrates perfectly the way ALL media act. Who cares about the effects of the report, as long as it is sensational

Your right of course, but their all guilty and so are we.

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Lonestar67

Classic example of the media trying to manipulate the public with some outrageous headline that is really not the story on this guy. Hey Jane, Next time read the story before you comment. You’re the reason the media loves to do this.
goodyt

To Nite Nurse – I only see a need to increase the punishment for the other crimes you mentioned, and NOT decrease the punishment for his crimes.

To Dwayne – does it matter? Is committing a crime by one race, or another, relevant in meting out punishment? Should we have multiple sets of laws, i.e., if you are Caucasian then…. If you are Black then…. If you are Mexican then…. etc.

2sister

I think you misread Nite Nurse’s comment or mistakenly thought that Jane’s comment was Nite Nurse’s comment. Nite Nurse never said anything about decreasing his punishment.

Carmen Juanita Nelson

80 years? You have got to be kidding me!! Child molestors get less time….man our system is seriously f’ed up!! Vehicular manslaughter gets less time…and sometimes out and out murder gets less time. I cannot believe 80 years for forgery??

Mark Levin

He had a lengthy rap sheet. Read the article, not just the headline, dummy.
NiteNurse

The law was designed to take career criminals off the street because if you commit 3 crimes or more in your life you aren’t going to stop. The courts were finding that they were seeing way too much of them so they made it easy for everyone and gave them a permanent home after 3 strikes. I

Rose

That’s B.S. As someone who used to work with recovering drug addicts, I know for a fact that is not true. People make mistakes, get hooked on drugs and end up in jail many times. I have seen many of them fix their lives and live as productive, responsible members of society. Get off your high horse. Our judicial system is broken. That is why we have more incarcerated people in the U.S. than any other country in the world. We jail people for victimless crimes like drug possession. We lock up people that need drug treatment and then turn around and let molesters and murderers roam the streets. Not everyone who gets arrested is evil. Many of them have serious issues that will take treatment and hard work to fix. I’m not excusing anyone’s actions, but you need to understand that good people can make mistakes and then turn around and change their lives. I’m sick of seeing young people who get hooked on prescription drugs, moving onto the harder stuff and acquiring records, essentially ruining their futures right as they should be starting their lives. What I’m saying has nothing to do with the article, by the way. I don’t know all the details, so I’m not going to speculate about it.

beebolt

You forgot the Banksters who stole trillions from hard working Americans got no gail time

Miguel

You hide the fact that Barney Frank and company (Increasingly under
Clinton)) forced the banksters as you call them to give out our money to outright thieves who could not afford to buy a house. So, my former party’s response is to plunder our bankers, and financial institutions of those trillions you speak of. They knew people as uninformed as you would blindly parrot their blaming of bankers for their using Fannie Mae to give out money that wasn’t theirs.

You fear to hear of Franklin Raines, Obama’s money man, who walked away from his role in Fannie May with 90 million of our tax dollars in his pocket. You are one who will keep this horrific corruption going, being a democrat lemming.
David Emerson Powell

If he’d been at the board of Fannie and Freddie, too, rather than this, he’d have been paid tons of money by the taxpayers and Frank & Co. would praise him and cover for him.

I agree it wasn’t just a hot dog. Being linked ot the theft of an 18 Wheeler isn’t a joke, and neither is a convicted felon possessing a firearm, Both are more a concern than the funny money. This guy was “smart” enough to do all three so when caught will get charged with all three… still it makes you think about the different types of criminals out there.

Rick McDaniel

I think it is clear, he did a lot more than just counterfeit money. So……..they threw the book at him…….which of course, means very little. It is highly unlikely that he will even serve 20 years of his sentence.
James Cook

Hey, folks. You are being manipulated by the way the story was written. This guy was convicted of forgery. During the punishment part of his trial, it was proven that he has also been convicted of a bunch of other stuff. That raised he range of punishment available to the jury for the forgery crime. The story makes you think the “system” unfairly whacked this guy for a hot dog. That’s the slant they wanted to give. I suspect that the jury — composed of men and women of all races and ethnicities — was convinced that this dude needed to be taken out of circulation because he just keeps committiing crimes.
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Mary

Well, Banks create money out of thin air and we do not see them doing time, do we.? How come the “money” this man used is deemed fake and bank money isn’t when neither are backed by anything?

Geoffrey Middleton

Because banks can’t be forced into slave labor for the profit of corporate jails.
luke

you didn’t know that 3 months ago did you?

Robert

I don’t see he did anything wrong. He just did exactly what the Fed’s been doing.
DavosSherman

Ben S. Bernanke counterfeits 20 bucks in a millisecond.

80 years, what an effing joke!
Your Self-Hate

Typical SeeBS, establishment career liars covering for a career criminal. The hot dog had nothing to do with anything. He’s a repeat felon and a counterfeiter.
oldgeez

“a police officer found more counterfeit bills worth $120 tucked into a wrapper of one of the hot dogs.”

Were they really worth $120??
Zin

It is clear that passing “copies” of negotiable instruments is a criminal act, yet courts are giving no jail time to bank executives and their foreclosure firms who provide counterfeited negotiable instruments. This man and those executives and judges committing or allowing crimes in foreclosures should join this man in a jail cell. A copy of a negotiable instrument is only counterfeited if passed as authentic. For instance, simply making a copy of a $20 bill is not illegal, but presenting it and attempting to defraud or deceive for value is illegal.

Counterfeit defined: made in exact imitation of something valuable or important with the intention to deceive or defraud.

The banks and their lawyers admit they are submitting a “true and exact copy” of negotiable instruments, yet they seldom are found guilty even of fraud on the court. It has been proved over and over that the copies are intended to deceive or defraud. The banks ADMITTED robo-singing affidavits of authenticity to help precipitate the fraud.

For every foreclosure that was dismissed, with or without prejudice, the plaintiff and the attorneys who participated in the suit should be jailed, too, as they have committed multiple felonies, as did this man. It is a felony to submit false statements for recording and to make false statements under oath in court. Banks have far more than a few counterfeited negotiable instruments on them and ready to pass for more gain than a few hot dogs, and even more than an 18-wheeler. Yet not one bank executive or attorney representing them has gone to jail?

Banks don’t pay, why should this man? He only wanted food that day. How ironic that he had been convicted of federal bank fraud too.
Craig

Incarceration has become a money making industry for everyboyd involved from politicians, cops, judges, and the people who work at the prison.
Auric Maston

The US government itself, through the privately owned bank the Federal Reserve, does the same thing: it prints money in order to buy what it can’t afford, in turn diluting the buying power of every dollar already in existence.

Tell me how what this man did is any different in essence and why everyone involved with the Federal Reserve shouldn’t receive 800 years in jail for the same thing, considering how much more dilution they’re responsible for than him.