HUDSONVILLE, Mich. (WOOD) — The Ottawa County prosecutor on Wednesday defended smartphone theft charges against a mom, saying his office had no idea it was a dispute over parenting.
But it's not only the misdemeanor larceny charges, which were dismissed Tuesday as Jodie May's trial was starting, that the mom questions.
"I would like answers on why it got so far and how it got this far where this happened within my home, I'm disciplining my child, then I'm the one being handcuffed," she said.
Records show Ottawa County deputies arrested her May 12, the day before Mother's Day, several weeks after her ex-husband claimed she had stolen his smartphone. May, who has remarried, said she was nursing her 4-week-old baby when an Ottawa County deputy knocked on her door.
"He had told me that he was going to arrest me, and I asked him if I could turn myself in on that Monday by myself, that I had a new baby. She wasn't taking the bottle yet," she said. "He said it doesn't work that way, it was a slow night, so he was out doing his list of warrants and he was scheduled to pick me up."
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