A pregnant woman has been arrested after posing for selfies on Facebook in a dress she’d allegedly stolen just a few hours earlier.
Now, we’re no experts (honest guv), but we reckon if you’ve nicked a dress from your local boutique, it’s probably not advisable to then pose for selfies on social media showing-off your ill-gotten wares.
Especially when the dress is a particularly distinctive fluoro leopard print number.
That, though, is exactly what expectant mother, 27-year-old Danielle Saxton of West Frankfort, Illinois, is claimed to have done earlier this month.
Shop owners believe Danielle walked out of Mortie’s Boutique with a sizeable haul including a new dress, some shirts and some jewellery, none of which were paid for, before heading home to post pics of her new wardrobe on Facebook a few hours later.
The co-owner of the boutique, Kert Williams, also took to the social media site to help track down the stolen items, saying he’d spotted Danielle making her getaway as he returned to the store on the other side of the street.
‘Her excuse was there was nobody in here,’ Williams said. ‘We were in the back working, and that she could just take it. You know, not really much of an excuse there.’
Williams took pictures from the security cameras and put them on the shop’s Facebook page, along with a request for people to get in touch if they had any information.
Given that Frankfort is a pretty small town (less than 10,000 inhabitants), it didn’t take locals long to put two and two together and come up with ‘wait, how stupid are you?’
Saxton was arrested shortly after.
Police Chief Shawn Talluto, said the selfie-loving ‘shoplifter’ still had the clothes in her hand when she was arrested and was also wanted on another warrant in Jackson County.
She was later released from jail on her own recognizance
And the moral of this story? Don’t pose for selfies in stolen gear. Oh yeah, and crime doesn’t pay, there’s that too.
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