Kacey Musgraves' boot thief captured and charged
The thief who broke into country star Kacey Musgraves' parked car and stole her new boots on Monday (04Jan16) has been arrested in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Follow Your Arrow singer had left her vehicle outside concert venue Third & Lindsley on Monday night, and returned to find her passenger's side window had been smashed and some shoes from her new footwear line with Texas company Lucchese and Charlotte Olympia gone.
Venting about the theft on Twitter, she raged, "Guess the a**bag
who broke into my car tonight is gonna look pretty good in the
@Lucchese1883 & @charlottes_web boots they stole... Broke my
window. Stole my new shoes! Still calculating what all else they
took (sic)."
Musgraves filed a police report about the incident, and on Tuesday
(05Jan16), the suspect reportedly tried to return the two pairs of
unworn shoes, valued at about $900 , to the Lucchese Boots store
with the singer's receipt.
However, the manager became suspicious about the man, named as
Darnell Cunningham, after recognizing the boots and noting the
star's name on the receipt.
As he was being quizzed about the boots, the suspect grabbed the
shoes and ran out of the store, but cops were able to track him
down from security footage and the 30-year-old was booked on a
charge of property theft on Wednesday (06Jan16).
Celebrating the news on Twitter, Musgraves simply wrote, "Stupidity
leads to victory."
According to a police report obtained by editors at The Tennessean,
the cost of damage to Musgraves' car was estimated at $500 .