ATLANTA, (Reuters) – An 85-year-old international jewelry thief was back behind bars yesterday, charged with stealing a pair of $690 earrings from an Atlanta store in the latest caper of her decades-long career as a jet-setting burglar with sparkling taste.
Doris Payne was caught pocketing a pair of Christian Dior earrings from a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Atlanta on Friday, according to an Atlanta police report.
The subject of a 2013 documentary, “The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne,” she was charged with shoplifting and remained in the Fulton County jail on Tuesday. Payne faces extradition to Charlotte, North Carolina on another jewelry theft charge, police said.
Police said they arrested the 5-foot-1 (1.55-meter), 110-pound (49.9-kg) Payne after store security personnel spotted her on video. Payne was apprehended at an adjoining shopping mall, and the earrings were found in her pocket, according to the police report.
Payne told police she lives in Long Beach, California.
The 2013 documentary film chronicled Payne’s more than 60-year, $2 million career as a jewelry thief and how she “managed to jet-set her way into any Cartier or Tiffany’s from Monte Carlo to Japan and walk out with small fortunes,” according to the film’s website.
