{"id":366613,"date":"2026-03-26T18:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/366613\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:27:08","slug":"woman-deported-from-us-to-face-theft-charges-in-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/366613\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman deported from US to face theft charges in Cork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">A 25-year-old woman has been deported from the US to Ireland to face outstanding theft charges in Cork \u2014 including stealing two hams and cosmetics more than seven years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Garda Pat Costello told Cork District Court yesterday that he arrested Ciocolata Munteanu at Dublin Airport on Tuesday when she arrived on a deportation flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cThe circumstances are that she was deported back from America by American authorities, and we were alerted to her arrival. She was deported on a flight from LA yesterday from the US after five years. Her whole family were there for the last six years,\u201d said Garda Costello.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Dennis Healy, solicitor, said: \u201cShe will enter a plea of guilty. She needs a couple of days to get the money together. I would ask for one week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">There was no objection to the accused being remanded on bail on conditions. They include living at 50 Orchard Court, Blackpool, Cork; signing daily at Bridewell Garda Station; and not to leave the jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Mr Healy said she was without a passport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ciocolata Munteanu at Dublin Airport on Tuesday when she arrived on a deportation flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">On November 27, 2018, Munteanu stole two hams valued at \u20ac80.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">On January 24, 2019, she stole \u20ac264 worth of cosmetics at Boots, Blackpool, Cork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">She pleaded guilty to those thefts at Cork District Court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 25-year-old woman has been deported from the US to Ireland to face outstanding theft charges in Cork&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,79,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-366613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-court","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}