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Man charged with grand larceny– of books

by Lisa Provence
published 11:21am Thursday Jul 8, 2010
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news-lambertStephen Thomas Lambert.
PHOTO FROM UNIVERSITY POLICE

Stephen Thomas Lambert, 23, is charged with one count of grand larceny after University Bookstore noticed that $19,000 worth of textbooks were missing. Store officials discovered many of those titles for sale on a site called www.half.com.

Lambert, who is listed as an undergraduate in UVA’s College of Arts and Science, was arrested June 30 and is out on bond. He’s scheduled to be in court August 5.

9 comments

  • booo! July 8th, 2010 | 12:09 pm

    Well, that’s certainly…creative. Wouldn’t be the first person I guess to steal from work then try to resell the items on the web.

  • Yes July 8th, 2010 | 1:24 pm

    He could have bought a haircut with that money!

  • ? July 8th, 2010 | 1:36 pm

    Halsey Minor should cut his hair like this kid. That might solve all Halsey’s challenges…

  • Gasbag Self Ordained Expert July 8th, 2010 | 3:14 pm

    Sounds like a prime candidate for the truTV show called “World’s Dumbest Criminals”. What goes through the minds of these people when they think they can sold stolen goods on the Internet without being caught?

  • Gasbag Self Ordained Expert July 8th, 2010 | 3:15 pm

    My bad… meant “SELL stolen goods!”

  • hmmm July 8th, 2010 | 5:39 pm

    This is a “Recession Crime.” UVa students used to be from affluent families. Who would ever have thought a UVa student would have had to do something like this to make money? When times are tight, people stoop do doing things to get money that they ordinarily wouldn’t have done.

  • gaslord July 8th, 2010 | 11:33 pm

    Books? Only in Cville do people bother with those. LOL Like “i reed boox” HA HA ha

  • King Ralph July 9th, 2010 | 7:34 am

    And you’re too……..BLOND!

  • Just Bob July 9th, 2010 | 11:44 pm

    Here is the problem. This article was advertised in the Wednesday’s Daily Progress as publication on Thursday… but on Thursday there was no mention of the article in the Daily Progress’s website. Nor was there any mention of the article on Friday (allowing the Daily Progress a day’s lag to try and sell newspapers with the extra story before transferring it to the web.

    Because of that… the lack of follow up details…. it’s all a moot point. Toss it in the waste basket because we no longer care.

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