IOWA CITY, IOWA (AP) -- A Salvation Army bell ringer has been charged with trespassing at an Iowa City grocery store she had been barred from a year ago.
According to a criminal complaint, 24-year-old Alberta Michelle Carter was ringing a bell for the Salvation Army outside the First Avenue Hy-Vee on Nov. 24 when she was recognized by a manager who had her arrested for shoplifting a year earlier. That incident earned Carter a lifetime ban from setting foot in or near the store.
Police said the manager contacted the Salvation Army and requested that Carter be reassigned to a different location, which it agreed to do.
But police say Carter went into the store and confronted the manager, which caused another arrest.
Carter pleaded guilty to trespassing and was fined $100.
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