Video rental stores, pushed closer to the brink of extinction by streaming services like Netflix and changing technology, may be a thing of the past but an overdue rental became an issue of the present for a Texas woman, The New York Times reported. The woman, who was identified in court records as Caron Scarborough Davis, recently learned that there was a 21-year-old outstanding warrant for her arrest in Oklahoma. Her offense? Prosecutors said that Ms. Davis had failed to return a copy of “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” a television sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2003. She rented the tape of episodes from a video store in Norman, Okla., in 1999. She was charged with embezzlement of rented property, and a warrant was issued for her arrest in March 2000. The store where she rented the tape, Movie Place, closed in 2008, according to KOKH Fox 25 in Oklahoma. In a charging document, prosecutors said that Davis “did willfully, unlawfully and feloniously embezzle a certain One (1) Videocassette Tape, Sabrina the Teenage Witch of the value of $58.59.” Davis discovered the outstanding warrant for her arrest after she got married and tried to change her name on her driver’s license. She said motor vehicle officials referred her to the district attorney’s office for Cleveland County, Okla., where a woman explained the charge against her. On April 21, prosecutors dropped the embezzlement charge against Davis in consideration of the “best interest of justice,” according to court documents.
