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88-Year-Old Woman Arrested For Taking A Ball

Reported by: Adam Marshall
Photographed By: Adam Marshall
Web Produced By: Megan Wasmund
Last Update: 10/20/2008 5:46 pm
(Adam Marshall, 9News)
(Adam Marshall, 9News)
She took a teenager's ball and wouldn't give it back.  Now 88-year-old Edna Jester from Blue Ash is facing charges.

"I said go ahead and arrest me.  Handcuff me if you'd like, because I said I'm not guilty of anything," said Jester. 

Thursday, Blue Ash Police arrested Jester for petty theft after taking her teenage neighbor's football that was in her yard.

The incident was caught on tape by people across the street who support Jester.

"Taken down and interrogated, a (near) 90 year-old lady. It almost hits home like this is the United States, this can't happen and this is absolutely ridiculous," said neighbor Kevin Pike. 

Kelly Tanis has five children and says Jester has taken balls from her children before.  So she called the police.

"This time it was a ball that my son had just bought with his own money.  He works and he makes his own money, and he bought that ball, and six days later she took it."

Blue Ash Police say they didn't want to arrest Jester.  Instead, they just wanted her to give the ball back.

Jester says that wasn't going to happen.

"I was giving it back sooner or later, but not right now so they could make a laughing stock out of me," Jester said.

Neighbors say the issue of where the kids should and shouldn't play has been ongoing for quite some time.

Jester was offered a chance by police to sign a ticket promising to appear in court, but she refused. Right or wrong, she is due in court Nov. 12.





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