An 87-year-old woman – once dubbed America’s most successful jewel thief – has vowed to give up a seven-decade life of crime after being busted for stealing from a local Walmart.
“Don’t come back, Ms Payne,” Chamblee Municipal Court Judge Angela Duncan told Ms Payne, according to US media.
“She is now free to get on with her life and that is what she wants to do,” she said.
However, Marissa Goldberg, Payne’s lawyer told The Independent that her client’s guilty plea had cleared the charges against her.