At tonight's city council meeting, members voted unanimously to spend $369,075 to fight property crime in Charlotte.The money will go towards the hiring of two new assistant district attorneys and three support personnel. The five member team will strictly go after habitual property crime offenders and make sure they are prosecuted to the fullest extend of the law.
WBTV reported tonight about a man named Wesley Patterson, who was arrested last month for the 89th time. Most all of his crimes are property related and he has served little jail time. Other similar examples include; Charles Hall, The Robinson's, Bridgett Nicole Evans, William Owens, Robert Morrison King and Robert Gregory Brown.
According to WBTV, the new initiative is designed to give repeat offenders more significant jail time rather than an unbroken pattern of arrest, release, and re-arrest. The goal of the initiative is to make sure every habitual offender who breaks into cars or homes is charged as a felon -- something that is not always the case right now. If convicted, the habitual repeat offenders will see longer jail time.