Student is cited for trying to take Mormon books from library
Takoma WA News Tribune 2Dec99 D6
By Paula Lavigne Sullivan: The News Tribune

TACOMA, WASHINGTON -- A student at the Pacific Lutheran University was cited for trying to take books about Mormonism out of a downtown Tacoma library without checking them out. The woman triggered the security monitor alarm as she attempted to leave the library.

After the 23-year-old woman's backpack was searched, police discovered that she had cut the bar code from one library book in an attempt to get it out of the library without triggering the monitor. She claimed that she was doing a school project about Mormon settlement in America and couldn't get a library card to check the books out.