Woman charged with theft of gun from Oahu prison restroom
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
Janelle Newcomb
Prosecutors charged a 35-year-old woman for allegedly stealing an officer’s handgun at Oahu Community Correctional Center.
Janelle Newcomb was charged Thursday.
She was a pre-trial detainee who was released from OCCC on Oct. 13 after her case was dismissed in court.
Sometime after 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Newcomb returned to prison to pick up her personal items when she allegedly stole a correctional officer’s .38 revolver, left unattended in a public restroom at the main entrance, according to the state Department of Public Safety.
When the officer returned for it, the firearm was gone.
Police and sheriffs began a search for Newcomb and the gun after it was reported missing.
Police located Newcomb in Waikiki and arrested her at 7 p.m. Thursday. Officers also recovered the missing gun.
Newcomb is charged with first-degree theft and is being held in lieu of $11,000 bail.
21 responses to “Woman charged with theft of gun from Oahu prison restroom”
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The bigger question is why was it left unattended and has the officer been questioned and/or reprimanded?
Reprimanded? Are you kidding me? Their union bosses and lawyers are probably huddling behind closed door discussing how to NOT get this clown lose his or her job.
The BIG looming question for me: Was the unnamed Officer and Janelle in the bathroom at the same time? And if so, WHY? hahahahaha, don’t tell me that that scenario didn’t come up in your mind
You really need to learn to read and comprehend…the restroom was a unisex restroom. Officer went in, left, then she went in then left. Unreal.
You believe the Media telling you some truth? lol, they could have been in the bathroom at the same time and the cop leaving 1st. hmmm
Personally I think that’s a greater offense than what Ms. Newcomb did.
Left unattended, set up.
The guards are the same mentality as the inmates.
Hopefully this case won’t be dismissed. The “woman” seems to have a 5 o’clock shadow in this picture.
Perhaps the officer left the gun for someone else to pick up.
I wonder how one charges someone with theft when the officer “left” the gun in the restroom. Could the defense not make a case that the item was “abandoned”?
When you take something that doesn’t belong to you, that’s theft. Why don’t you know this?
why is she being charged, she did not steal the gun she found it.
the person who should be charged is the person who left the gun unattended.
I was thinking the same thing – what she did was wrong, but the real criminal was the one the who put the public in danger by leaving the gun “unattended”
2 more geniuses!
What was Janelle thinking? “Oh look, a gun for my protection, what good fortune today….I need to get to the nearest gun range and practice my aim….but let me stop first in Waikiki and get a drink”.
Pretty dumb of the guard to leave her weapon where an inmate could take it. Lucky she didn’t shoot the guard.
Picking up abandoned property in a public area is not theft.
Please tell me this is a joke. I mean the dude leaves his .38 in the lua, and the “lady” picks it up?
Dumb guard or entrapment? Set-up to get her into further trouble. Crime of opportunity, astute girl sees guard ingress with gun and egress without?
Sm she gets a second chance at going to prison.