The justice system is completely out of control in the hands of Democrat prosecutors.
Now government bureaucrats are misusing it.
And a homeschool mom was hit with an arrest warrant in Texas for this jaw-dropping reason.
Unreturned library books could result in jail sentences in Texas
Kaylee Morgan – a homeschool mother of five – found herself in an unthinkable situation because of a dispute with a local public library.
She checked out some books from the Navasota Public Library in Grimes County, Texas on Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh in March 2023.
And Morgan got the shock of her life when she tried to renew her driver’s license when she was told there was an active warrant out for her arrest.
“So I go in and the DMV tells me that they cannot renew my license because I have a warrant out for my arrest, and I audibly laugh,” Morgan said in a video posted to social media. “And I’m shocked because I haven’t been pulled over, haven’t got any tickets. It just doesn’t make sense.”
“I mostly stay home,” Morgan added. “I homeschool my kids, so it just didn’t compute, what she was saying.”
Bewildered at the idea of being arrested for overdue library books, she contacted the local judge to get to the bottom of the situation.
“It’s so silly. So silly,” Morgan said. “I have a warrant out for my arrest for past due library books. OK … this is not fake. This is not made up.”
Morgan told the judge that she was having trouble with her pregnancy when the books were due.
And that she had tried to return them but one of them wouldn’t fit into the library’s drop box.
“I’m explaining that we returned the books,” Morgan recounted. “There was one that was too big to fit into the return box. And when we did return it, the system was down, but I definitely returned it.”
“And that, max, was two weeks late,” Morgan added. “Maybe more than that, but I was pregnant and having some complications, and I was on bed rest.”
Texas judge treats overdue library books like shoplifting
Morgan said that the judge didn’t have any sympathy for her situation.
“She told me she didn’t want to hear my excuses, that I needed to take responsibility,” Morgan explained. “She said, what I have done by not returning the library books is the same as stealing from Walmart.”
The judge said that the warrant was valid and that she had to pay a $600 fine to renew her driver’s license.
“So on my record, it says that I have stolen government property,” Morgan exclaimed. “Bonkers, right? Just bonkers.”
The judge warned her that if she drove on a suspended license, she would get the hammer dropped on her.
“She said, make no mistake that if you’re driving in Grimes County with or without your kids, and you get pulled over, we will arrest you,” Morgan said. “So they will arrest me in front of my kids… I don’t know what I’m going to do about this.”
Morgan said that the judge told her she was served with the warrant because someone signed it.
But she said never signed for it and the judge wouldn’t tell her who did.
“[The judge] said they issued the warrant, and somebody signed for it, and I said it wasn’t me,” Morgan recalled. “I didn’t sign for it. I would know if I had signed her warrant because I would not be driving. I don’t want to go to jail. And I asked her who signed it, and she said, ‘It doesn’t matter.'”
Morgan turned to crowdfunding with GoFundMe to help pay off her fines.
Now she plans to hire a lawyer to have the charge expunged from her record.
Political Animal News will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
