–Don't use a baby stroller to hide merchandise you're stealing.
Just ask 44-year-old Thuy Thi Dinh.
This week, Dinh learned that her conviction and three-year prison sentence was upheld by a California court of appeal.
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If caught by store employees (which occurred), Dinh's backup plan
inside T-Shirts N More in Tustin was to claim she'd forgotten that
she'd placed more than half a dozen shirt inside the stroller.
The excuse might have worked except for one pesky fact: Dinh is a serial shoplifter.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.