Man Accused Of Stealing Playboy Bra, Handcuffs, Fishnets From Woman

GASTONIA, N.C. -- A Gastonia man faces misdemeanor larceny charges after an acquaintance accused him of taking her Playboy bra, underwear set, fishnet stockings, handcuffs and other items including cash.

Megan Blanton, 20, told a magistrate judge she was at the mall Wednesday and saw Stephen Duran Harmon sitting outside. They talked and then walked around the mall purchasing some items.

“We went into Spencer’s first, which I purchased a Playboy bra and underwear set, fishnet stockings and handcuffs,” Blanton wrote in a warrant affidavit.

She and Harmon went to another store and bought eye shadow cases and a third store where she bought a pair of O’Neill Superfreak board shorts. Blanton changed out of her gray jeans into the shorts and then put her wallet, containing her license and $126 cash, into a shopping bag.

At some point they walked outside the mall to smoke a cigarette. A second 20-year-old woman was with them at least part of the time, according to the warrant affidavit.

After smoking, Harmon grabbed one of the shopping bags “like he was going to carry it for me and we walked back in.”

When they arrived at the elevator, Harmon asked about the time and then said “’I can beat you up there,’” Blanton wrote in the warrant affidavit.

When Blanton and the other woman arrived upstairs they did not see Harmon. They asked a woman where he had gone and she said she saw him run back outside, according to a warrant affidavit.

Harmon of 2101 Rufus Ratchford Road was booked in into Gaston County Jail under a $1,000 bond on a misdemeanor larceny charge at 2:22 a.m. Thursday.

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