A Northern California Woman Set Up a Sting Operation to Bust Her Neighbor for Stealing Her Purse

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As professional Law & Order watchers, we got pretty into this story on The Daily Mail: An unnamed woman in Northern California ordered a purse and a pair of shoes from a Neiman Marcus in Florida and had it shipped to her house, only to find that the package (valued at $1,400) was stolen from her porch. And allegedly, it was stolen by her next-door neighbor.

This same neighbor—Elizabeth Kidd, 36—proceeded to put the bag on Craigslist. Her neighbor, who isn't an idiot, began to troll the site and found what she believed to be her stolen bag. She then masterminded a sting operation to catch Kidd. She pretended to be an interested buyer, the two met at a bank, and cops in plain clothes nabbed her mid-buy. Let's give this woman the gold star that she deserves and just start calling her Eames.
· California woman caught trying to sell $1,400 stolen purse [Daily Mail UK]