Ex-NSA Worker Gets Probation In Jewelry Theft Case
NBC 4.com, DC
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A former National Security Agency employee has been ordered to serve two years of probation for jewelry theft.
Linda Kelley, 51, was sentenced Tuesday — nearly two years after acknowledging that prosecutors had sufficient evidence for a conviction. The delay was needed to determine how many of the nearly 1,000 pieces of jewelry seized from her home in 2004 truly belonged to her.
She was allowed to keep about $21,000 worth of jewelry for which she had receipts, officials said. Most of the other items were returned to the two stores where she had worked part time.
The investigation began in June 2004. Authorities said jewelry from one of the stores was found tucked in Kelley’s bra after she was caught stealing clothing from a nearby J.C. Penney store.
Kelley resigned from the NSA.
