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.
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This is so rare and unusual that all anyone can say is "Degenerate Democrats!!"
No doubt Democrats are shopping for a federal judge to seek his release
More of jeb bush’s “love” I suppose.
Can’t get too much of that “due process,” you know!
She’ll be extra motivated now.
Just committing robberies that Americans won’t commit.
Break arms, legs and joints.
Makes future attempts a bit more challenging.
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
Well, thats one way to make sure you are deported...
Yes.
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.....
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.
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.
hehehe
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.
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.
You aren’t her.
The reason she was carrying so much cash has been explained, not that it’s anyone’s business.
You mean a district judge, or traffic court judge.
Well, you are SLOPPY!!! She is LIVING in a city NOT her home!! geesh.....do you not travel past your state?
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