Good Samaritan who fed homeless for 10 years charged with unbelievable $2,000 fine

Founder of the nonprofit mobile food truck Chow Train, Joan Cheever, was fined by the San Antonio, Texas police for about $2,000 due to the lack of permit for the trucks she is using to transport food. Cheever argues she has the right to do her charitable activity under the 1999 Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act due to her faith-inclined goal.  According to the reports, she was cited for her act last Tuesday night, after 10 years of operations.

span style="line-height: 15.8599996566772px;">MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - "I am not a criminal. My nonprofit is made up of GOOD SAMARITANS. It is bad enough and horrible enough to criminalize the poor. Now to call Good Samaritans criminals?" Cheever wrote on Facebook, defying the "outrageous" police action, according to The Blaze.

Cheever challenged the police to give her another citation and another after the other; Cheever stated that her operations will not be put into halt.  In the report of the San Antonio Express News, she was stopped by the police that night and was given a ticket for the use of other trucks in her charity work apart from her truck with permission.

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Chow Train has been serving the San Antonio's homeless people with restaurant-quality food for over the past decade and was even featured in Rachel Ray's show for their high effort.

Cheever explained that they are not only the homeless but also the people without money to buy food, and claimed that she is not doing this to hinder these people from getting back at their own feet.

The Chow Train and Cheever plans to do a candlelight vigil at the Maverick Park, where they were stopped, to raise awareness and concern for the matter next Tuesday.

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