{"id":1532687,"date":"2025-04-27T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1532687"},"modified":"2025-04-27T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T17:55:00","slug":"how-fitting-illegal-alien-arrested-in-theft-of-dhs-secretary-noems-purse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/how-fitting-illegal-alien-arrested-in-theft-of-dhs-secretary-noems-purse\/1532687\/","title":{"rendered":"How Fitting: Illegal Alien Arrested In Theft Of DHS Secretary Noem’s Purse"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Fitting: Illegal Alien Arrested In Theft Of DHS Secretary Noem’s Purse<\/span><\/p>\n

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A man has been arrested in the Easter Sunday theft of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse and — wouldn’t you just know it — he’s in the country illegally,<\/strong>\u00a0according<\/a> to US Attorney Ed Martin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The suspect was taken into custody in Washington on Saturday afternoon, but his name and country of origin have not yet been disclosed. While he awaits a court appearance that’s expected early this week, police are on the hunt for an accomplice — another illegal entrant to the United States — and<\/a> suspect the two are part of a large, East-coast robbery crew<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was not an amateur<\/a>. This was a person, a thief that knew how to do this. You could see how he scouted the room out,” said Martin, referring to the Washington DC Capital Burger location where Noem was victimized.\u00a0The investigation is being jointly handled by DC Metro Police and the Secret Service.\u00a0Given the suspects’ illegal-alien status, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has joined the effort.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Noem and Secret Service agents failed to secure her pricy handbag and contents as her family had Easter dinner at Capital Burger<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Investigators don’t think Noem was targeted because of her position<\/strong> — only for her outward display of opulence. \u201cThere is no indication it was because of [who she is]. It was…frankly, it was a nice-looking purse,\u201d<\/strong> Martin told NBC News<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The “nice-looking purse” was a\u00a0large “Gucci B” shoulder bag that retails for\u00a0$4,400<\/a>.<\/strong> There were more riches inside, including a\u00a0$600 Louis Vitton Clemence purse<\/a>\u00a0that held\u00a0roughly\u00a0$3,000 in cash. <\/strong>The bag also contained her DHS badge, passport, driver’s license, credit cards, blank checks, medicine and apartment keys. Attempting to justify the stack of cash, DHS told the\u00a0New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that \u201cher entire family was in town including her children and grandchildren. She was using the cash withdrawal to treat her family to dinner, activities and Easter gifts.\u201d Undercutting the rationale, the $3,000 was in the purse\u00a0after<\/em> Noem settled the tab.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Noem is known for flashing her money around.<\/strong> On a March visit<\/a> to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center — where the Trump administration has sent suspected illegal-alien gang members found in the United States — she wore a $50,000 Rolex Cosmograph Daytona<\/a> watch. If she has a financial planner, he or she must cringe at Noem’s consumption, which seems disproportionate to her estimated $1 million net worth<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Noem wore a $50,000 Rolex Cosmograph Daytona watch on her visit to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center\u00a0<\/strong>(Pool photo by Alex Brandon)<\/a><\/p>\n

In addition to embarrassing the woman responsible for securing the homeland,\u00a0the theft was the latest in a long-running series of failures of the Secret Service<\/strong>, which is itself a DHS agency.\u00a0At least two agents in street clothes were sitting at the bar, somewhere between the front doors and Noem’s table, a witness told\u00a0NBC News<\/em><\/a>, adding that the eatery wasn’t particularly crowded when the incident occurred.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the immediate wake of the theft, a law enforcement source told the\u00a0Post<\/em>\u00a0that a review of security camera footage captured\u00a0a white man in an N-95 mask, dark pants, a “fur-type” collar and ball cap\u00a0<\/strong>pulling off the crime. (We’ll soon see how “white” he turns out to be.)<\/em> Around\u00a07:55pm<\/a>, he entered Capital Burger and headed up a few stairs to the area where Noem was dining.<\/p>\n

After sitting near her,\u00a0he maneuvered his chair close to hers and surreptitiously used his foot to nudge her handbag toward him<\/strong>. A few minutes later, he picked it up, tucked it inside his jacket, walked out the door and down the street. Noem had just finished settling the tab when\u00a0she felt something brush against her leg<\/strong>; at that moment, she thought it was a grandchild, sources told the\u00a0New York Post<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Noem records a social media video during her recent visit to the notorious Salvadoran prison where she’s sent suspected gang members caught in the United States<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Martin pledged that the thief won’t be preying on Americans anymore. \u201cPresident Trump\u2019s direction to us is we charge these folks that are here illegally and we prosecute them, as well as deport them when need be, you know, as soon as that can happen,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat I can tell you is he won\u2019t be back on the streets in America.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Noem knows just the place to send him….<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 04\/27\/2025 – 09:55<\/span><\/p>\n

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