STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Police say a woman stuffed a $2,900 Pomeranian puppy into her shirt and fled a Stuart pet store, but the getaway was short-lived.<\/p>\n
Officers with the Stuart Police Department say they responded to a pet store on December 6 for reports of a $2,900 pomeranian puppy being stolen.<\/p>\n
Police say a woman stuck the puppy in her shirt and attempted to make a clean getaway.<\/p>\n
See also: Restaurant manager sent to Alligator Alcatraz released after outcry across Palm Beach Co.<\/a><\/p>\n But her newfound dog momhood didn’t last long.<\/p>\n Detectives launched an investigation and tracked the dognapper to Polk County, where the suspect, 26-year-old Bobbi Joe Zitko, was taken into custody and booked for a count of grand theft, according to the news release. <\/p>\n Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n “We would like to thank the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office for their outstanding assistance in helping us bring this paw-sitively unacceptable crime to a successful resolution,” the police department said in a post to Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Police say a woman stuffed a $2,900 Pomeranian puppy into her shirt and fled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-94290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}