BEDFORD — The woman who police said locked her keys in her car while stealing from another woman’s unlocked vehicle pleaded guilty to a charge of grand larceny Tuesday.
Carolyn Fay Biggs, 61, of Bedford, was sentenced to one year of supervised probation by Bedford County Circuit Court Judge James Updike.
“Mrs. Biggs was in a period of distress in her life which we believe caused this event to occur,” said her attorney Drew Davis.
According to earlier testimony, Summer Thompson said on March 25, she brought breakfast to her roommate, who was working at the Tractor Supply Co. in the Wal-Mart shopping center off U.S. 460 in Bedford.
She left her pocket book on the passenger seat and the car door unlocked. Inside her purse was most of a $300 paycheck.
A man in the parking lot saw Biggs cruising around the lot, pulling beside cars and looking inside, previous testimony said. When she pulled up next to Thompson’s car she got out, took the purse out of Thompson’s car and into her own car, then put it back, light a few hundred dollars.
As she put the purse back, she used her sleeve to wipe down the door handle and frame of Thompson’s car, according to testimony.
The man who witnessed the theft confronted Biggs who at first said it was her daughter’s car. When the man told her he didn’t believe her, Biggs noticed she had locked her keys in the car.
A Bedford County deputy unlocked Biggs’ car and found $217 in loose cash in the floorboards.
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