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Suspect Accused Of Stealing Kristi Noem’s Bag Identified As Chilean Illegal Migrant
One America News ^ | April 27, 2025 | Abril Elfi

Posted on 04/27/2025 3:30:36 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

UPDATE 10:52 AM – The suspect accused of stealing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Gucci bag containing approximately $3,000 in cash has been identified as a Chilean undocumented migrant.

According to a report by the New York Post, Mario Bustamante-Leiva, 49, was detained on Saturday after reportedly stealing the shoulder bag when Noem, 53, was celebrating Easter with her family at The Capital Burger in Washington, DC.

Bustamante-Leiva, who is illegally in the United States, is considered to be a member of a vast east coast robbery network, and law enforcement is still looking for another undocumented immigrant who served as his accomplice.

US Attorney Ed Martin stated that Noem was not targeted because of her high-profile position, and that the suspects were likely drawn to the pricy Gucci bag, which also included her driver’s license, passport, DHS badge, and apartment keys.

Bustamante-Leiva was previously arrested in 2015 for a five-month theft spree in London, during which he stole about $28,000 in phones, wallets, and computers, according to a Daily Mail report at the time.

Martin stated that Bustamante-Leiva and his accomplice will never return to the nation now that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been engaged in the case.

“It was frankly… a nice looking purse. This was not an amateur. This was a person, a thief, that knew how to do this. You could see how he scouted the room out,” Martin told NBC News.

10:22 AM – The suspect accused of stealing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Gucci bag containing approximately $3,000 in cash has been arrested.

Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin told NBC 4 that both suspects are undocumented migrants and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is now involved in the case.

(Excerpt) Read more at oann.com ...


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Illegal Immigrant Organized Professional Thieves!

This is so rare and unusual that all anyone can say is "Degenerate Democrats!!"

1 posted on 04/27/2025 3:30:36 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

No doubt Democrats are shopping for a federal judge to seek his release


2 posted on 04/27/2025 3:33:51 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Scary that a party can "run" a candidate that doesn't feel any need to campaign.)
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To: NoLibZone

More of jeb bush’s “love” I suppose.


3 posted on 04/27/2025 3:35:40 PM PDT by farmguy ( )
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To: NoLibZone

Can’t get too much of that “due process,” you know!


4 posted on 04/27/2025 3:39:02 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: Navy Patriot

She’ll be extra motivated now.


5 posted on 04/27/2025 3:39:54 PM PDT by KittyKares
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To: Navy Patriot

Just committing robberies that Americans won’t commit.


6 posted on 04/27/2025 3:40:26 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (May Rachel Zegler and Disney never know profits.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Break arms, legs and joints.

Makes future attempts a bit more challenging.


7 posted on 04/27/2025 3:44:34 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Navy Patriot
Phoenix had a rash of burglaries from a Chilean gang. The had equipment to foil alarms. Send him to CECOT!
8 posted on 04/27/2025 3:45:21 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Foreign gangs..we got plenty of them here in SoCal, from South America, they come here and know which neighborhoods to strike and how to do it..but hey, am going to wait for some commie judge to release him after all due process


9 posted on 04/27/2025 3:52:31 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Navy Patriot

Well, thats one way to make sure you are deported...


10 posted on 04/27/2025 3:54:41 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: Moltke

Yes.


11 posted on 04/27/2025 3:58:06 PM PDT by dadgum (Fight to WIN or do not fight at all)
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To: farmguy
More of jeb bush’s “love” I suppose.

Apparently Jeb is still living rent free in your mind for whatever stupid reason...........Sheesh!

Give it up and stop sucking up to the Democrats.....


12 posted on 04/27/2025 3:59:51 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Navy Patriot

Ah, Biden “imports”. Is there any crime that they cannot commit? Figures that one of the nation’s most slimy crime families would know how to find like travelers down the road of fakery, robbery, and just plain repulsiveness. Biden & Co are true examples of what happens when DNA goes bad.


13 posted on 04/27/2025 3:59:59 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Navy Patriot

I’m glad the thief has been caught, at least one of two.
But, it’s either careless or very odd that Noem would have $3K in cold cash, stuffed into her purse.

That is her private business how she carries her money, but I would never go on a casual family outing with that much loose currency. What if I lost my wallet, it accidentally (and very quietly) falls out of my side pocket at a gas station onto the carpeted floor, while I’m buying a Grapefruit Soda and a bag of BBQ Pork Rinds.


14 posted on 04/27/2025 4:09:13 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: farmguy

hehehe


15 posted on 04/27/2025 4:11:00 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Hot Tabasco; farmguy

farmguy has a point. Open-border Republicans like Jeb Bush allied with Democrats to help get us in the mess we’re in today.

It’s something worth remembering.


16 posted on 04/27/2025 4:18:24 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Bustamante-Leiva and his accomplice should have already been delivered to El Salvador’s CECOT prison to begin a life sentence. In that prison a “life sentence” could end in a couple of days.


17 posted on 04/27/2025 4:24:51 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (President Trump is America's long-awaited SUPREME Commander in Chief. Deus Hoc Vult!)
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To: lee martell

You aren’t her.

The reason she was carrying so much cash has been explained, not that it’s anyone’s business.


18 posted on 04/27/2025 4:28:12 PM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: NoLibZone

You mean a district judge, or traffic court judge.


19 posted on 04/27/2025 4:33:55 PM PDT by JeemBeau
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To: lee martell

Well, you are SLOPPY!!! She is LIVING in a city NOT her home!! geesh.....do you not travel past your state?


20 posted on 04/27/2025 4:36:05 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience..)
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