FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A Fayetteville teenager who made nationalheadlines two years ago when he received a transplanted kidney fromhis science teacher is now in jail.
Michael Carter, 17, is charged with attempting tosteal a forklift.
His mother says she is so upset with him that she has nointention of posting his $50,000 bail.
Police say an employee of Fayetteville Block Materials sawCarter and another teenager on the $40,000 forklift onSunday and turned them in to police.
In April 2000, Jane Smith, then a teacher at R. Max AbbottMiddle School, donated a kidney to Carter, who was born with renaldisease.
Carter and Smith were featured in national publications andSmith received the National Kidney Foundation's Gift of Life medalin 2000.
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