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If you check a book out in Copperas Cove, Texas, you best make darn sure you return it. Failure to do so could result in a trip to the big house.
Jory Enck learned that the hard way when he was recently arrested over a book, a GED study guide, that he checked out and failed to return three years ago, KEYE reports.
The city ordinance was passed because some patrons weren’t responding to requests to return their library materials. “The reason they passed it was that they were spending a tremendous amount of money replacing these materials that people just didn’t return,” Bill Price, the city’s municipal judge, told KEYE.
Enck was released on a $200 bond. KEYE visited the Copperas Cove Public Library and found that the book in question had since been returned. Inside, they found Enck’s library card.
Yahoo News spoke with Sgt. Julie Lehmann of the Copperas Cove Police Department about the arrest. She said it isn’t unusual. “I don’t have statistics on it, but it is quite frequently,” she said.
Lehmann said her police department doesn’t aggressively pursue people who have overdue books. She explained that what happens is the police usually make “contact with the individuals on a traffic stop, or we go to their residence or wherever.” Lehmann said something similar happened in the case of Enck.
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