Newspaper profits a steal

There’s still a profit in newspapers, if you steal them.

That’s what a man in Trinity, North Carolina did, Thomasville, NC police allege. 

Kenneth Lee Wright, 26, is accused of stealing 9,000 copies of the High Point Enterprise – worth $1,620 -- in 2008. Det. Sgt. Brad Saintsing said Wright had taken the newspapers from one of two locations where newspapers were dropped off for carriers.

It took five years to catch up with Wright, who is out on $500 bond, even though Randolph County sheriff’s deputies recovered the papers in 2008, when the warrant was filed.

There are only 21,354 people in Thomasville. Apparently half the subscribers didn't get their paper on time that day.

You may recognize Thomasville for its furniture-making fame, which it shares with its High Point and Lexington neighbors.

To read the entire article in the Thomasville Dispatch, click on http://www.the-dispatch.com/article/20130208/News/302089989