From the Desk of Pocomoke City Police Chief
Kelvin D. Sewell
In April 2013 Pocomoke City Police met with Ms. Eileen Kirkwood who is the owner of Classic Collections located at 132 Market Street in Pocomoke City, Maryland. Ms. Kirkwood stated she had an employee who she believed was stealing from her store. Detective Bailey from the Pocomoke City Police Department conducted a six month investigation which led to the arrest and conviction of Classic Collection employee, Ms. Lena Taylor.
Investigation revealed that Ms. Taylor had been stealing money by way of fictitious store invoices and over the course of several months she stole several thousand dollars from Classic Collections.
Ms. Taylor’s case was presented by Worcester County State’s Attorney office on January 08, 2014 in front of Judge Bloxom. Ms. Taylor was found guilty on all five counts, two felonies and three misdemeanors. Ms. Taylor received a sentence of 18 months suspend all but six months. Ms. Taylor was taken from the courtroom into custody to begin her 6 month sentence at the Worcester County Detention Center.
6 comments:
isn't she a minister
I wont go into things other then to say I hope this woman who owns this shop can live happy with herself and sleep at nights too knowing what she has done to Lena. Especially after all that Lena has done to build up that business when the woman hardly ever stepped foot into that shop.
Lena DID NOT DO WHAT SHE WAS CONVICTED OF DOING!!! Trust me there is more to the story then anyone knows.
Just because Ms Taylor helped build up the business and the business owner hardly stepped foot into her own shop doesn't give any employee the right to steal. Proof must have been somewhere- she got jail time.
We seem to be seeing a lot of this employee/employer theft lately and it almost always involves a woman. The comment above (3:01) suggests an element of envy, resentment type of thing going on, which led to Taylor feeling she was entitled to taking something which did not belong to her.
The Fact is Ms. Taylor had no way to really defend herself. She did not have paper work that was used against her. And Ms. Taylor held no resentment against anyone. It seems the owner of the business wanted certain things done that were underhanded and Ms. Taylor refused to do those things. Then she was fired and a few months later charges were filed.
Eileen Kirkwood did not just fall off the turnip truck. I have known her for over 25 years and she knows how to run a business, knows what's right and what's illegal and Lena just bit off a little more than she bargained for.
Your friend,
Slim
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