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George Watter Jolicoeur is accused of stealing food and bilking businesses out of refunds.
SANFORD, Fla., April 1 (UPI) — A 600-pound Florida man could not go to court to face charges of stealing food and cheating restaurants because he was too fat and sick, his lawyer said.
George Jolicoeur, 38, of Sanford, Fla., remained in a nursing home, breathing with the help of a respirator, but pleaded no contest to petty theft charges for five crimes, his lawyer, James D. Phillips Jr., said in Seminole County (Fla.) Court.
Jolicoeur has a five-year history of fraudulently demanding refunds from stores or restaurants, and then pleading no contest, The Palm Beach (Fla) Post reported.
In one 2005 charge, he claimed to have found hair in six milkshakes, the newspaper said.
One of his current charges states he was arrested after telling a clerk at a 7-Eleven store he’d bought $50 worth of beef jerky, only to discover it was moldy.
Prosecutors offered Phillips a plea deal for his client — if Jolicoeur pleaded no contest to five misdemeanor petty theft counts and paid $1,365 in court costs plus unspecified restitution, then he wouldn’t have to go to jail or serve probation.
Phillips accepted the deal and entered the plea Wednesday.
Phillips specialized in "dine and dash," well, maybe not "dash."
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