A serial thief who stole a handbag from former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has been sentenced to three years in prison.
Noem had her handbag - with $3,000 (£2,260) in cash inside - swiped while she was dining at a Washington DC restaurant with her family last April.
The Gucci bag was one of many stolen by Mario Bustamante Leiva, who did not realise he was targeting a cabinet secretary, prosecutors said.
Bustamante Leiva, a 50-year-old native of Chile, faces deportation after his sentence, said the justice department.
"Bustamante Leiva came to Washington illegally to prey on citizens of the district," Jeanine Pirro, US attorney for the District of Columbia, said in a statement. "His pattern of theft ends here."
