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Saturday, January 3, 2015

Judge accepts pair of Nikes for bail instead of cash



FRAMINGHAM – A Framingham man told a Framingham District Court judge on Friday that he had no money to post bail, but he had something else he could give – shoes.

Jason Duval, 39, told Judge Douglas Stoddart he would provide the new Nike sneakers he got for Christmas, valued at around $85, in exchange for his release.

“OK, we’ll take them,” Stoddart said.

Framingham Police had arrested Duval at his 27 Henry St., apartment on Thursday on a Natick District Court warrant that originally charged him with two counts of possession of a Class B substance, possession of a Class C substance and driving to endanger. More