US thieves sentenced after boasting on TV show

Wed Mar 24, 2010

BBC News

A US couple who boasted on a TV show they made as much as $3,500 a week by selling shoplifted toys online have been sentenced to prison terms.

Matthew Eaton, 34, got 27 months in jail. His wife Laura Eaton, 27, was sentenced to one year.

The couple from southern California pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen goods.