{"id":487082,"date":"2026-06-07T04:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/487082\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T04:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:36:19","slug":"shoplifter-convicted-and-sentenced-after-spate-of-thefts-in-waterford-city-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/487082\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoplifter convicted and sentenced after spate of thefts in Waterford city &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A woman charged with multiple thefts from stores in Waterford appeared in court last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ruslana Balesko (58), with addresses at 39 Ballytruckle Road, Waterford and Lissananny Beg, Ballymote, Sligo, was charged with three counts of Section 4 Theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On January 10, she stole \u20ac109 worth of clothing from TK Maxx. The following month, on February 26, she stole items from Holland &amp; Barrett to the value of \u20ac67. A month later on March 25, she stole \u20ac50 worth of items from the same store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The woman&#8217;s defence said that she recently arrived to live in Ireland following the outbreak of war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For the theft from TK Maxx committed in January, Judge Kevin Staunton convicted and sentenced the woman to six months. The other theft matters were taken into consideration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n             Funded by the Court Reporting Scheme\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman charged with multiple thefts from stores in Waterford appeared in court last week. Ruslana Balesko (58),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-487082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487082","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=487082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}