Veteran Charged with Theft for Rescuing Tattered US Flag

Karl Baldner will head to court later this month to face charges of petit theft for removing an American flag from a local business last summer.

It began in August of last year when Baldner, who served a decade in the US Army, said he saw an American flag flying at a local business that was in bad shape; the colors were faded and more than 50 percent of it was missing. According to the police report, Baldner confronted the man who owned the real estate business, indentified as John Granfield.

In the report Granfield said Baldner had 'stormed' into the office a month prior and told him to take down the flag. Granfield said he told Baldner that the flag meant a lot to him, but he felt the country was going through a 'difficult time' and to him 'the flag accurately depicts our present situation.'

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