Peter De Yager owns the Foreign Candy Company in Hull, Iowa. He's a die-hard Republican, having donated more than $30,000 to GOP PACs and campaigns since 2019. And on July 26, he stole a Biden yard-sign from a private home in Monarch Cove.
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De Yager initially pleaded not guilty to fifth-degree theft and trespassing, but eventually pleaded guilty on Sept 21 and paid $365 in fines.
De Yager's charges were published in the Sept 2 edition of the @DickinsonCoNews.
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De Yager's charges were published in the Sept 2 edition of the @DickinsonCoNews.
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Shortly after the Sept 2 paper hit the stands, De Yager went on a crime-spree, visiting a series of retailers who carried the paper and stealing their entire stock of the the paper, hitting newspaper vending boxes as well.
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De Yager was captured on CCTV committing brazen thefts, sticking stacks of papers down his pants or wrapping them in a free-sheet and walking out. In one case, he tricked a clerk by asking her to look for gift cards, then snatch her stock while her back was turned.
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"He put his Wall Street Journal down on top of the Dickinson County News and looked over to see if anyone was watching him, grabbed all the papers and walked out the door" - Tracy Theye, general manager, Okoboji Kum & Go
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Theye confronted De Yager about his theft on a subsequent visit and he lied in response, saying that "he mistook them for the free Northwest Iowa Shopper publication and that he wanted to cut out all the coupons to a particular quick-service restaurant."
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De Yager has since paid back at least some of the stores he stole from. He has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor from one of his thefts, and been ordered to pay a $105 crime, with restitution (if any) to be determined later.
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Fun fact: $20,000 of De Yager's GOP donations went to a PAC devoted to unseating the unrepentant Nazi @SteveKingIA (not hyperbole, he's literally a proud supporter of an Austrian neo-Nazi group founded by a Nazi war criminal).
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The PAC put IA state senator @RandyFeenstra up against King in a primary race. Feenstra used to work for De Yager.
All of this has the makings of a delicious comic caper novel like a @Carl_Hiaasen plot transplanted to the midwest.
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All of this has the makings of a delicious comic caper novel like a @Carl_Hiaasen plot transplanted to the midwest.
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