A seventy-year-old woman from Alabama has been sentenced in Chattooga County State Court to twelve months of probation following her recent conviction for shoplifting at a local Walmart in Trion. Martha Jane Bowes, who has made headlines before, was also ordered to pay a $500 fine and is now prohibited from entering the store. Bowes’ latest legal troubles come on the heels of a peculiar case last year in neighboring DeKalb County, Alabama, where she faced charges for theft of property and the desecration of graves. In that incident, she was caught on surveillance cameras stealing handmade floral arrangements from a cemetery. After authorities in Alabama obtained a warrant for her arrest, Bowes was taken into custody. When the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Deputies searched her home in Hammondville, they discovered multiple stolen floral arrangements that had been reported missing from the cemetery.
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