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Cops: WTNH Traffic Reporter Says She Shoplifted For Story
Courant.com ^ | 6-24-2010 | Staff

Posted on 06/24/2010 10:52:35 AM PDT by raybbr

MILFORD —

A traffic reporter for WTNH-TV in New Haven said she was a "freelance news reporter, and she was doing something on the side" when she walked out of Sears without paying for $105 in merchandise, police said.

Desiree Fontaine, 33, was charged with sixth-degree larceny Saturday.

Police said Fontaine took a $40 bottle of cologne, two gold earrings worth $3.99 each and $15 necklace from the jewelry department and went into a fitting room.


Fontaine left the fitting room without the merchandise, and when store security checked the fitting room, they found the price tags for the jewelry, the police report states.


Then Fontaine went to the men's department, selected a Hawaiian shirt worth $42 and returned to the fitting room, the report states. She exited the fitting room, but the shirt was not visible, the report states.

Store security checked the fitting room again and found the price tag for the shirt, the report states.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: crime; ooooookay; right; sure; uhuh
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For the "job"...
1 posted on 06/24/2010 10:52:38 AM PDT by raybbr
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And then the reporter was accosted by police, and faced these charges, and now the story is evolving from ‘how easy it is to shoplift’ to ‘how they’re throwing the book at minority women..’


2 posted on 06/24/2010 10:54:40 AM PDT by kingu (Favorite Sticker: Lost hope, and Obama took my change.)
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To: raybbr
She'll be a jello wrestler by the end of the summer.

....not that there's anything wrong with that.

3 posted on 06/24/2010 10:55:45 AM PDT by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: raybbr

$3.99 ear rings? Classy.


4 posted on 06/24/2010 10:56:08 AM PDT by Pete (exponential problems require exponential solutions : 29thday.org)
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To: raybbr

She wouldn’t be suffering from AAES (Afirmative Action Entitlement Syndrome) now would she?


5 posted on 06/24/2010 10:56:17 AM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: raybbr

Good thing she wasn’t doing a story on ‘murder’.


6 posted on 06/24/2010 10:58:25 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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Because ‘shoplifting’ is a new and serious crime that most of the public is unaware of.


7 posted on 06/24/2010 11:00:52 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: raybbr

I was just doing research, Your Honor.

8 posted on 06/24/2010 11:01:18 AM PDT by Fundamentally Fair (Bush: Mission Accomplished. Obama: Commission Accomplished.)
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“Police said Fontaine took a $40 bottle of cologne, two gold earrings worth $3.99 each and $15 necklace from the jewelry department and went into a fitting room.”

Since when does one need a private fitting room to try on cologne and jewelry?

Since when does the fitting room attendant even allow one to take a ‘consumable’ like cologne into the fitting room?

The places I have gone, they only let you take in clothes.


9 posted on 06/24/2010 11:03:03 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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$3.99 ear rings? Classy.

She gets her nails done at Walmart.

No, she has zero class.

10 posted on 06/24/2010 11:03:21 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: equalitybeforethelaw

AS soon as I read the Desiree ... I knew.

The pic confirmed it: AAES.


11 posted on 06/24/2010 11:03:30 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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LOL!

I’ve never noticed a fitting room at Bass Pro Shop. (where I get most of my favorite clothes)

All I need to see is “XL-Tall” and I’m good.

And the cargo shorts ALWAYS fit.


12 posted on 06/24/2010 11:06:19 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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She needed some new ear rings, that would catch people’s attention, stop staring at her big chompers.


13 posted on 06/24/2010 11:09:49 AM PDT by Professional
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To: raybbr
Found this on another site:Ah ha, the "quirky ways" defense.
14 posted on 06/24/2010 11:14:22 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Fundamentally Fair

Is that the perv who had child porn for research?


15 posted on 06/24/2010 11:17:51 AM PDT by MaxMax (Conservatism isn't a party)
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Ah ha, the "quirky ways" defense.

She currently resides in West Haven with her husband Joey, who is always by her side cheering and rooting her on!

I wonder if he is still cheering her on?

GO DESIREE! Shoplift some more! GO GO GO!

16 posted on 06/24/2010 11:20:32 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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LOL...That is hilarious!!!!


17 posted on 06/24/2010 11:22:48 AM PDT by wberry8870
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To: raybbr
If you really are doing a story like that, maybe you should contact the police and perhaps the store's district manager beforehand so that if you are caught they'll not press charges.

The follow up story on being arrested, fingerprinted and stuck in a cell with the city's more interesting people should win her a Pulitzer.

18 posted on 06/24/2010 11:24:02 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I am so immune to satire that I ate three Irish children after reading Swift's "A Modest Proposal")
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To: Pete
$3.99 ear rings? Classy.

Do you know many earings a gal loses in prop wash?
19 posted on 06/24/2010 11:30:39 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: MaxMax

Yep...


20 posted on 06/24/2010 11:33:46 AM PDT by Fundamentally Fair (Bush: Mission Accomplished. Obama: Commission Accomplished.)
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