Woman pleads not guilty to theft of library items

Published 10:19 am Friday, April 15, 2016

A woman charged with the theft of multiple library items pleaded not guilty Thursday.

Magen Atkins, 25, of Austin was charged with gross misdemeanor charges of theft indifferent to owner rights.

On Dec. 23, 2015, police received a report of someone trying to pawn DVDs Atkins had checked out from the Austin Public Library. Atkins said it was her boyfriend who took the DVDs from her apartment and tried to pawn them at Downtown Pawn.

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The library later informed officers Atkins has $682.74 worth of materials and she owes money to them but they would rather have the items back.

Atkins allegedly told her boyfriend to take the items back to the library and had no idea he would try to pawn them. She did return seven CDs, two bride’s magazines and one graphic novel, decreasing the total to $556.99.

She is also facing other charges in other cases:

• Third-degree criminal sexual conduct using force or coercion

• Felony charges of terroristic threats with reckless disregard and misdemeanor fifth-degree assault to inflict or to attempt bodily harm and misdemeanor domestic assault with intentions to harm another. Atkins pleaded not guilty on Feb. 8.

• Convicted of misdemeanor disorderly conduct on July 15, 2015.