THE DAY GENERAL NORIEGA'S
WIFE WENT SHOPLIFTING
G'day folks,
The exclusive and expensive shop in Miami was called 'Look'. But when Felicidad Noriega, wife of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, came calling in 1992 she decided to do more than just “look”.
She was arrested after she and a friend were caught snipping buttons
from 10 jackets on display at the shop, owned by the Burdines department
store chain. Both women were charged with shoplifting $305 worth of
buttons.
Police said that Panama`s former First Lady and her friend dropped the
buttons into a bag of merchandise that they had genuinely purchased.
After passing several cash registers in the store at the Dadeland Mall
shopping centre, they left without paying and were arrested outside by
the store’s security staff.
Charged with grand theft, the couple spent the night in jail before
being released on $1,500 bail each. The police said the women caused
$1,242 in damage to the clothes.
Normally, Felicidad would turn to her husband to resolve such a little
local difficulty, but he had his own problems. He was nearing the end of
his trial for racketeering and drug trafficking, for which he would
soon receive a 40-year jail sentence.
In the end, Felicidad’s lawyers signed a deal with the State Attorney’s
Office in Miami. The charges against her were reduced to petty theft and
criminal mischief and it was agreed no further action would be taken
provided she would undertake counselling or community service and pay
$1,320 in damages. And that buttoned up the case.
Clancy's comment: Mm ... tell me the company you keep and I'll tell you who you are.
I'm ...
I don't know if that is entirely fair. I have always had an array of friends with wildly different backgrounds and tastes. So the mere fact that I associated with any one individual probably wouldn't tell you a great deal about me at all. But perhaps the fact that I have a disparate array of friends might.
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