![]() ![]() "Whereas on something like this you know they're just going to wait until the person gets pulled over for speeding and gets taken into custody." “A prosecutor files charges on somebody for something serious (law enforcement is) going to go find that person," he said. McBride said lawyers have told her that - after her story was aired on local news channels - they were contacted by people who went to jail for similar situations.Īlthough it is rare to have a warrant out for an arrest for over two decades, Ed Blau of Blau Law Firm, which is based in Oklahoma City, told News9, "there was no way for her to know she had this warrant." Now, she is looking for a lawyer in Oklahoma but some have refused to take her case. "I was working two jobs, sometimes three jobs," McBride said. "I was struggling to make ends meet when I knew I was quite capable of making really good money." She suspects having the felony on her record may have cost her job opportunities. "I thought I was going to be have a heart attack." looked up the reference number and told me it was a felony embezzlement," McBride said. In the email response, she was given a case number and the phone number to the courthouse. When she emailed the Department of Motor Vehicles in November to set up an appointment, as per COVID-19 protocols, she received a response on April 16 that she had to fix an issue in Oklahoma first. McBride didn't find out about the outstanding warrant against her until she tried to change her name on her license after getting married and moving to Texas from Oklahoma. She added: "I have never seen one episode nor movie." She believes her boyfriend at the time who had two young daughters rented the tape in her name. McBride, 52, was charged with felony embezzlement of rental property in Oklahoma, where she previously lived, in March 2000 - more than a year after the tape of "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" was to be returned, court records show. "It makes me madder and madder the more I think about it." "It's hurt me tremendously, and my family," she told USA TODAY. Though the case was dismissed and expunged Wednesday, Caron McBride is looking into legal options. Meanwhile, McBride said she’s never even seen the 90s teen sitcom starring Melissa Joan Hart - which she called “Samantha the Teenage Witch,” and didn’t think she would like it if she did.Watch Video: Bend, Oregon home to last Blockbuster on planetĪ Texas woman doesn't remember renting a VHS tape 22 years ago - let alone that she didn't return it - and the place she rented it from shut its doors more than a decade ago. But the unreturned tape led to her being charged with a felony. McBride said she thinks a man with children she lived with over 20 years ago may have rented the video under her name and never returned it. “This is why: because when they ran my criminal background check all they’re seeing is those two words: felony embezzlement,” she told a local news outlet. She said over the years she’d been fired from jobs without knowing why - leading her to believe her criminal record may have been the culprit. ![]() McBride found out from out the DA’s office in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, that while the rental store closed in 2008, a charge for embezzlement had gone on her record. Weeks ago, McBride, of Oklahoma, applied for a Texas driver’s license under her new married name - only to discover a warrant for her arrest, The Guardian reports. CLEVELAND COUNTY, Oklahoma (KXAN) - Fifty-two-year-old Caron McBride was slapped with more than a late fee for an unreturned VHS rental of “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” episodes in 1999. ![]()
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