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Starbucks Coffee Thrower Jonathan A. Pease Sentenced: Man Gets Two Years In Prison For Throwing Coffee In Barista's Face

First Posted: 04/28/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 04:40 PM ET

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Daily Herald:

A homeless McHenry County man was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for throwing hot coffee into the face of a Starbucks barista who was trying to help calm him through an erratic episode.

Jonathan A. Pease, 28, whose last known addresses were in Crystal Lake and Round Lake, received the two-year term as a result of his guilty plea earlier this month to aggravated battery and criminal damage to property charges stemming from the Nov. 14 incident.

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NightEditor
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05:07 PM on 02/28/2010
That's grounds for some time in a rubber room.
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johnnylotech
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11:27 AM on 03/03/2010
That's exactly what the Grande Jury said.
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AnotherMcIntosh
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12:14 PM on 02/28/2010
So the last time he used hot-coffee as a weapon, he got probation.

This time, his hot-coffee attack on a Starbucks employee caused her to have first- and second-degree burns to her face, neck and chest.

When they let him out, he's going to do this again.
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invirginia
A higher double-standard.
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03:13 PM on 02/27/2010
Well, that certainly solved his homelessness problem.
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11:15 AM on 02/28/2010
In like one of the most expensive ways possible for us not him. I thought the same thing. Homelessness problem solved. New problem utter lack of freedom.
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techcafe
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10:10 PM on 03/03/2010
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world; 754 persons in prison or jail per 100,000 (as of 2008, but the incarceration rate went up even higher in 2009).

A report released Feb 2008 showed that more than 1 in 100 adults in the United States are in prison.

The United States has less than 5% of the world's population, yet about 25% of the world's prison population.

i could give you more alarming statistics and ugly truths about US' prison industrial complex if you want (believe me, it is bad), but suffice it to say, this industry is doing very well... business couldn't be better, thanks in no small part to that other 'war' we've been waging against the people for the last 50 years and counting... i speak of the war on drugs, of course.

it's crazy really, the colossal amount of money we spend on wars, prisons and such.
so much for our 'social economy'
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