A man who stole a donut in the United States is sentenced to 30 years in prison

A man who stole 52 cents (about 60 yen) of donuts was sentenced to 30 years in prison for having committed a felony in a town 70 miles south of St. Louis.

Thieves are bad things, but what exactly is it like to be punished like this just by stealing a donut?

Details are as below.FOXNews.com - Missouri Man Faces 30-Year Prison Term for Stealing 52-Cent Donut

Scott A. Masters (41) was charged with a second-class burglary criminal charges that she slipped a donut in a sweatshirt without paying the price last December and stole a female clerk who tried to stop it and ran away. To strike people is treated as a light attack behavior and it seems that it became armed robbery of 5 to 15 years imprisonment from shoplifting of minor crime. In addition, the prosecutor seems to raise up to 30 years imprisonment by listing Scott 's past criminal record.

Scott was charged in September, but he has been arrested ten and several times by shoplifting from automobile arson for banned drug ownership / insurance money fraud and has totally forgotten that he stealed the donut He said that.

He said "I can not do that with an armored robbery donut?" I admitted that I had stolen the donut, but denied that I threw the clerk off, and I said, "I have committed a violent crime We do not thrust away women for the sake of donuts. "