Sweetness, Not Light
For starters, I don’t want any cruel jokes about the fact that this woman is charged with knocking over a candy store:
That would be the hurtful part, not the funny part.
A 19-year-old Green Township mother is in the Hamilton County jail after Cincinnati police charged her with taking her newborn child along while she broke into a candy store.
That’s the tragic part.
Christine Ruther and three others are accused of breaking into Peter Minges & Son candy store, 138 W. Court St., downtown, shortly before 1 a.m. and swiping about $500 in candy, police said.
The group was arrested a few blocks away at Fourth and Race streets when police caught up with them by following a trail of candy and candy wrappers.
And that’s the funny part. In a tragic, hurtful way. But this part’s pretty funny, too.
Leslie Betts, manager of the 103-year-old family candy distributing business, said the quartet stole every kind of candy imaginable: “Reece cups, Skittles, Twizzlers, you name it.”
She said she learned of the break-in when Cincinnati police called her at home about 1:30 a.m.
“You’ve been broken into,” she said they told her. “We’re guarding the Swedish fish. Hurry. Come down. We can’t leave the store. It’s wide open.”
In a 103-year-old candy distributors shop, they went for the Skittles and Twizzlers.
Here’s some shock over the sorry path sugar can lead you down.
Cincinnati police also called Ruther’s mother, Amy Ruther, and asked her to come pick up the baby at District 1 police headquarters in the West End, Amy Ruther said in a phone interview.
She said she was shocked and upset over her daughter’s arrest – and that she would have the baby, Madison, with her.
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Amy Ruther said she doesn’t think the break-in was planned because the baby was with her daughter.
“I love that baby. She is a beautiful baby,” she said of her granddaughter. “That’s one thing: Christy did really take good care of that baby until now. Until she did this stupid thing. She’s got problems, like I said, and I never thought she would do this.”
At the risk of sounding cruel and hurtful, I’m going to need more information on why she never thought Christy might break into a candy warehouse.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:43 pm on Thursday, April 10, 2008
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April 10th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
And the moral of the story is: A sweet tooth can lead to a life of crime.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:01 am
“swiping about $500 in candy, police said.”
When they found her the next day, she only has $200 of the candy left.
April 11th, 2008 at 8:03 am
“We’re guarding the Swedish fish.” The cops said that? What a great line.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
What are Swedish fish?
The real tragedy is that this woman, who’s either retarded or stoned to the gills, has a baby.
April 11th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
For starters, I don’t want any cruel jokes about the fact that this woman is charged with knocking over a candy store:
Yeah right…OK. How fast was she running, when the collision occurred?