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16 January 2009

shreveport man gets 15 years for stealing $100.00

***DEVELOPING ... 14 october 2011 ... earlier this afternoon we spoke by telephone to randy bain, news director at ktbs.

we explained to him how roy brown and the report of his receiving 15 years in jail for stealing $100.00 has resonated across the internet.

that it has drawn in interest from the start and how we receive huge roy brown traffic spikes from time to time when his story is mentioned in the blogosphere or media somewhere in the world.

you probably know what we mean.

we explained that there was never any verifiable followup on this story which is inexplicable and suspicious to the global internet audience because everyone can see it was well covered online. 'so why wasnt it on every tv station?' some quip.

and that not surprisingly over time this lack of further mention, well ... its made a lot of people in the internet suspect that the roy brown story is just another internet hoax.

for example, recently commentators on the escapist: forums, without anything more to go on are pretty reasonable in their skepticism see Homeless man turns himself in for taking $100 dollars. Gets 15 Years.

kudos to the escapist: forums commenter evilneko for finding the still live ktbs roy brown url.

as far as the image being fake -- our image below is a screen grab that we personally took of roy brown's booking information off of the official police department website. others may have used this image or a derivative of it or created their own; that we have no control over. it is a public domain image. La. R.S. 44:1 et seq.

after reflecting and drawing from the information that he had available at his fingertips from his desk mr. bain said flat out that "roy brown is not a hoax."

he came here to this post and said he would check out the links and forums and hopefully answer all of your questions in a new roy brown report.

ktbs, while in louisiana, is out of our viewing area and isnt carried by our cable provider suddenlink, so there is a very slim to non chance that we will be able to add it to youtube. however,

mr. bain understands that due to the global interest in roy brown to also post the report from their website of ktbs.com

until we learn more, regularly check out www.ktbs.com
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07 july 2011 UPDATE

thanks to a blog post from 24 june 2011, we've become aware that some are starting to suspect that roy brown is a hoax. see: the johnsville news "injustice in america or clever hoax?"

for sure, it's always good to be suspicious of what you read online and do your own original research. so we thank the johnsville news for their post.

when we originally posted this story it was reported from ktbs-tv, channel 3, the abc affiliate, in shreveport, louisiana.

KTBS
312 E KINGS HWY
SHREVEPORT LA 71104-3504
USA
Main Number 318-861-5800
Newsroom 318-861-5880
318-219-4680 (fax)
website www.ktbs.com

the internet archive, wayback machine, bears this out. navigate to archive.org and enter our original 2009 source url in the wayback machine search:

internet archive, wayback machine, ktbs.com snapshot 18 january 2009:

Man who took one bill and handed rest back to bank teller gets 15-year sentence

Created: January 15, 2009 04:08 PM
Modified: January 15, 2009 06:52 PM

A man who said he robbed a downtown Shreveport bank because he was out of a job and hungry has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for first-degree robbery.

Roy Brown, 54, of Audrey Lane, pleaded guilty in Caddo District Court to robbing the Capital One bank in December 2007.

Brown admitted walking up to a teller with one of his hands under his jacket and telling her it was a "stickup." The teller handed the man three stacks of bills and he took a single $100 bill, told her he was homeless and left, police said.

Brown surrendered to police the next day, telling them his mother didn't raise him that way.

Police let him sober up and interviewed him two days later. Police said Brown told them he needed money to stay in a downtown detox center, had nowhere to stay and was hungry -- so he walked up the street and robbed the bank.

source:the internet archive, wayback machine. it also shows that this report was on ktbs.com until at least 20 march 2009.

http://wayback.archive.org/web/

on 16 january 2009, the ktbs.com source url was live and that probably helps to explain why so many bloggers courteously linked back here.

if anyone wishes to investigate mr. brown and his situation further, the caddo parish district court criminal clerk's office should be a good place to start.

yes there is no reporters name listed as responsible for filing the story; this was probably because someone at ktbs merely [re]posted a press release from the district attorney. so. it's entirely possible that this story was never reported over-the-air; only online and ktbs has no clue that it sparked a tremendous internet buzz / cause célèbre.

it couldnt hurt to contact them, explain the situation and request a more formal follow-up report.

anyway, if anyone finds the rest of the story posted online, let us know and we will link to it or if you own it we can post it here for you.

thanks ... wst ...

----ORIGINAL POST----

apparently, still smarting from that whole "cut 'em loose carmouche" nonsense that was used against him in his recent unsuccessful bid for the fourth congressional district seat, caddo parish, la. district attorney, paul carmouche asked for and received an astounding fifteen year prison sentence for roy brown.

ktbs reports:

A man who said he robbed a downtown Shreveport bank because he was out of a job and hungry has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for first-degree robbery.

Roy Brown, 54, of Audrey Lane, pleaded guilty in Caddo District Court to robbing the Capital One bank in December 2007. Brown admitted walking up to a teller with one of his hands under his jacket and telling her it was a "stickup."

The teller handed the man three stacks of bills and he took a single $100 bill, told her he was homeless and left, police said.

Brown surrendered to police the next day, telling them his mother didn't raise him that way.

Police let him sober up and interviewed him two days later. Police said Brown told them he needed money to stay in a downtown detox center, had nowhere to stay and was hungry -- so he walked up the street and robbed the bank. ~ source

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