Woman steals cell mate's debit card number, bails herself out of jail

Woman steals cell mate's debit card number, bails herself out of jail
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One woman in Naples, Florida, wasn't exactly scared straight by a stay in the local jail.

As the Naples Daily News reports, 25-year old Crystal Stephens admitted to detectives that she stole a piece of paper from her cell mate, on which the cell mate had written down her own debit card information. Stephens then used the card to pay for a bail bond. She didn't stop there, though — Stephens also used the money to purchase items at the jail commissary, and bought a plane ticket for a friend, for a total of $1,733 in charges.

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