Kozma feared the worst: a kidnapping.
Within minutes, she would learn what was really happening. Her 25-year-old daughter, Jodi, who has the mental capacity of an 8-year-old, was being questioned for shoplifting at a Livonia Wal-Mart. Jodi was suspected of stealing hair ties and hiding them in her waistband and purse during a shopping trip with her grandmother, records show.
Jodi wound up in handcuffs, muscled to the floor by Livonia police.
Wal-Mart and the Livonia police wound up in court.
Turned out, Jodi had bought a 30-pack of hair ties and stickers that day, and has a receipt as proof. The suspicious bulge in her waistband was her cellphone.