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Advocate.com September 20, 2011 04:20:00 PM ET
Marauding Gang of Drag Queen Bandits Captured in Florida
By Diane Anderson-Minshall
http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/09/20/Marauding_Gang_of_Crossdressing_Bandits_Stole_Drag_Queen_Essentials/A trio of drag queen bandits who've been accused of stealing "thousands of dollars of filmy fabrics, sequins, feather boas, and other accessories" from stores across Florida have been apprehended, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
"It's a whole gang of drag queens," said Amanda Marshall, manager of Jo-Ann Fabrics in Orlando, after police arrested three suspects Sept. 18. "They were real upset when the police made them take their wigs off."
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Florida's fun-loving (cross-dressing) criminals
Thieves in drag target boas, gloves and handbags
Tim Dowling
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 20 September 2011 14.59 EDT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/20/floridas-cross-dressing-criminalsA lone shoplifter in a suspicious wig is hardly newsworthy, but when transvestite thieves start rampaging through shops in dresses – and in groups – it makes the papers, even in Florida.
"It was a whole gang of drag queens," Amanda Marshall of Jo-Ann Fabrics told the Orlando Sentinel, after the crime spree ended in several arrests. Blithely disregarding the first rule of shoplifting – don't draw attention to yourself – the gang targeted fabric and hobby shops across Central Florida in search of the raw ingredients of cross-dressing, and had hit Jo-Ann Fabrics at least three times before. "They'd come in and order yards of fabric at up to $39.99 a yard, stuff it in their man purses and leave without paying," said Marshall. "Oh, gosh, they could wipe out a whole section of boas in seconds."
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Men in wigs accused of stealing boas and bras
'They were real upset when the police made them take their wigs off,' says manager of Jo-Ann Fabrics.
By Henry Pierson Curtis, Orlando Sentinel
8:51 p.m. EDT, September 19, 2011
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/crime/os-drag-queen-gang-shoplifters-20110919,0,3197519.storyMen wearing wigs and dressed as women are accused of stealing thousands of dollars of filmy fabrics, sequins, feather boas and other accessories from Central Florida stores.
"It's a whole gang of drag queens," said Amanda Marshall, manager of Jo-Ann Fabrics on East Colonial Drive in Orlando, where police arrested three suspects Sunday afternoon. "They were real upset when the police made them take their wigs off."
Such thefts became routine within the past year at fabric and hobby stores.
