A mum-of-two who was caught with a stolen Samsung Galaxy tablet following a ‘distraction theft’ at a supermarket has been given a two month suspended jail sentence.
A Samsung Galaxy was stolen during the robbery at a Letterkenny supermarket.
Angelica Milesieu, 40, was with her children and another young adult at LIDL in Letterkenny on October 31st, 2014.
Another young family in the supermarket complained that a Samsung Galaxy electronic tablet had been taken from a child.
When Gardai viewed CCTV footage, they recognised Ms Milesieu of 3 Pump Street, Kerrykeel close to the incident.
When they stopped her at Raymoghey, Manorcunningham, the electronic device was found in her car.
Ms Milesieu admitted handling stolen goods and Letterkenny District Court was told she had number of previous for thefts around country.
Judge Paul Kelly asked if the children in the CCTV footage where the accused woman’s children and he was told they were.
“So she was supervising this theft,” he said.
He said he thought she was unsuitable for community service because of health issues and sentenced her to two months in prison but suspended the sentence for 12 months and ordered her to be of good behaviour.