Parents arrested, lose custody, over $5 snack 'theft'

HONOLULU?? A pregnant woman and her husband were arrested for allegedly stealing two sandwiches at a supermarket in Honolulu, resulting in their 3-year-old daughter being put into state care for 18 hours, officials said on Saturday.

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The supermarket that called the police was a Safeway in Makiki, a neighborhood in Honolulu. A statement from a company spokesman said Safeway was checking on the incident.

"From our preliminary investigation, it appears we may not have handled this matter in the best possible way. We are taking this situation seriously, and giving it our full attention," Safeway said in a statement on Saturday.

The mother, Nicole Leczcyzynski, 30-weeks pregnant, was feeling faint and noshed on a chicken salad sandwich while shopping at the store on Wednesday, she said in an interview with local television station KHON.

She paid for roughly $50 dollars worth of groceries but forgot about the two sandwiches, valued at $5 each, according to Safeway.

"It was a complete distraction, distracted parent moment," Leczcyzynski told KHON.

The family was stopped by security staff while leaving the store. Leczcyzynski offered to pay for the sandwiches, she said, but the security guard called the police, the couple were arrested, and their daughter was taken into custody by Child Protective Services, a state welfare group.

'They just took her'
"We walked a long way to the grocery store and I was feeling faint, dizzy, like I needed to eat something so we decided to pick up some sandwiches and eat them while we were shopping," she told the local station.

The couple's daughter was returned to her parents 18 hours after she was taken into custody.

"I couldn't believe this was happening because we had forgotten to pay for our sandwich," she said. "We didn't know where our daughter was, we didn't know what the situation was, she didn't have any clothes. They just took her right from the grocery store."

Both Leczcyzynski, and her husband, Marcin, were charged with theft, Honolulu police said. Bail was set at $50 apiece.

Reuters contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45103847/ns/us_news-weird_news/

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