Man jailed for 3 years for stealing Kristi Noem's handbag in DC restaurant

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Man jailed for 3 years for stealing Kristi Noem's handbag in DC restaurant
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A 50-year-old man, Mario Bustamante Leiva, was sentenced to three years in prison for stealing former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's Gucci handbag from a Washington, DC restaurant last April; the bag contained about $3,000 in cash and he pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud and one count of first-degree theft, with investigators tracing him via a stolen credit-card gift card. He faces deportation after serving his sentence.

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