Prison.... are NEGRO MAGNETS - Feral Negro Isaiah E. Reed out of prison for less than 5 hours gets arrested for stealing alcohol....

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PHOTO: Isaiah E. "I gots to have a drink!" Reed

URBANA ILLINOIS — A man who had been released from prison in Danville about midday Tuesday after serving a year for unlawful use of a credit card was back in custody five hours later for allegedly stealing alcohol in Champaign.

Champaign police Lt. Bruce Ramseyer said officers were sent at about 4:40 p.m. to the County Market, 331 E. Stoughton St., where a loss prevention officer was holding a man who reportedly stole two bottles of vodka, valued at $20 each.

The loss prevention officer saw the man leave the store without paying for the alcohol, followed him outside and ordered him to stop. At that time, the man ran and one of the bottles was broken as the officer caught him.

Ramseyer said the man gave police a name and a matching identification card, but officers who recognized him were having trouble placing the name.

Ramseyer said the officers realized that the man was wearing plain gray sweatpants, a plain white T-shirt and blue denim canvas shoes, the clothing that the Department of Corrections issues those being released.

The man admitted stealing the vodka but denied ever being in prison and said he was wearing his "relaxing clothes," Ramseyer said.

After several attempts, police learned that the man was Isaiah E. Reed, 28, who listed addresses on North Hickory Street in Champaign and in Country Club Hills. He had initially given police his brother's name, Ramseyer said.

Police learned he had been released from the prison in Danville about 41/2 hours earlier.

He was charged Wednesday with retail theft with a prior theft conviction and obstructing justice, both Class 4 felony offenses, and was told to be back in court Oct. 4.

Court records show that besides the unlawful use of credit card conviction for which he is on parole, Reed had two other felony convictions for theft, one misdemeanor conviction for theft and a misdemeanor conviction for obstructing identification.