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Posted: Thursday, 17 July 2008 12:34PM
Staten Island Mom Steals Teacher's Purse
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A Staten Island mom is learning her own lesson after stealing a teacher's purse during her son's first-grade graduation ceremony: Crime doesn't pay.
Traci Holmes is facing a 90-day prison sentence and five years' probation after pleading guilty Wednesday to grand larceny.
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Authorities said Holmes went into an empty classroom during the graduation ceremony at the end of May and stole the teacher's purse. They said she also ran up more than $300 on one of the teacher's credit cards.
Holmes got a split sentence, meaning she'll serve a portion of the jail time, under threat of completing the sentence if she violates her probation.
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