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In April 2021, local, national international news outlets published a remarkable crime story, reporting that a woman living in Texas had faced a felony embezzlement charge over an unreturned Sabrina the Teenage Witch video tape that was rented from a video store in Oklahoma more than 20 years earlier. On April 22, Oklahoma television station KOKH published an article with the headline Oklahoma woman charged with felony for not returning VHS tape 21 years ago stating that: Similar articles were published by KTVT, CBS News, the Washington Post and The Guardian. Those reports were accurate. A Cleveland County District Court felony information document, seen by Snopes, shows that in March 2000, prosecutors there charged McBride with embezzlement of rented property, a felony which at that time was punishable by up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $5,000. The document set out the details of the charge, alleging that McBride: That embezzlement charged remained pending for more than 21 years, until late April 2021. The Cleveland County District Attorney's office told KOKH that they had reviewed the case and decided to dismiss it. On April 26, a staff member at the district court clerk's office told Snopes that the two-decade-old embezzlement charge against McBride had been expunged. We therefore rate this claim as Outdated. In an interview with KOKH, McBride insisted she did not rent the video herself and had never even watched the popular television show starring Melissa Joan Hart, which aired on ABC and The WB between 1996 and 2003. Instead, she speculated that a former roommate, who had young daughters, might have rented the VHS tape. The Norman, Oklahoma, video store in question, Movie Place, remained open until July 2008, but KOKH reported that it went out of business later that year.
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