Noem purse thief sentenced to three years in prison

Tamara Ceaikovski

April 22 (UPI) -- On Wednesday, a U.S. District judge sentenced the man who stole a purse from former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to three years in prison for that theft and others in Washington, D.C. Noem was eating with her family April 25 at a restaurant in the presence of Secret Service agents when Mario Bustamante Leiva took her Gucci purse from the floor, NBC News reported. Police later found the bag, which had credit cards and more than $3,000 in cash, in Bustamante Leiva's