CHARLOTTE, N.C.,None — A Charlotte man won $175,000 in a lawsuit against Target.
The retail giant accused Thomas Stone, a former employee at the Stonecrest store in south Charlotte, of helping a woman steal a TV and an iPod. He was arrested for embezzlement, but the charges were dropped.
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Stone won a lawsuit against the company for malicious prosecution, but said he won't forget being arrested.
"I had never been in a situation where I was in handcuffs in the back of a police car, going to jail," he said. "You see stuff on TV and you see these crime shows and it's nothing. It's not like you get there and you have an interview and they ask you -- you get put in a holding cell for 10 hours and then, you never know what's going to happen next."
Stone said his chances of enlisting in the Air Force were hurt because of the arrest.