Childhood shoplifter makes amends.

Shawn Seamons, a lifelong resident of Logan, Utah, recently walked into the Island Market and handed Joanne Hanson, the store's owner, a check for $200. He said it was to pay her back for all the candy he shoplifted from her store when he was a schoolboy.

Alex Cabrero of KSL, Channel 5 in Salt Lake City, interviewed both parties involved in this highly unusual story about the triumph of a man's conscience over his past transgressions. Seamons said he went to the Island Market almost every day after grade school to feed his insatiable sweet tooth, but never paid for his goodies. As Seamons walked around the store he recollected for the reporter: "This was the candy aisle. This was the medicine aisle."

"I think we would just stash our backpacks full of candy, and just have an afternoon of sugar high and absolute fun," he recalled.

Joanne Hanson, however, does not consider shoplifting to be "fun." As she explained: "It hurts us, it does. We struggle to compete with the bigger stores."

Seamons explained what impelled him to make amends to Hanson: "It's been weighing on my mind for five or six years now."

Although Hanson disapproves of Seamons' past actions, she is a forgiving individual and attributed Seamons' willingness to make amends to his much-improved character.

She explained: "Integrity. That's one thing I value above everything else is integrity."