NEW YORK CITY – A senior United States guy who took a set of ruby slippers used by Judy Garland in the timeless movie “The Wizard of Oz” prevented jail time at his sentencing hearing on Monday.
Terry Martin, now 76, was sentenced to time served and a year of probation for the 2005 theft as he remains in hospice care with 6 months to live, according to the New York Times.
The sequined shoes– indelibly connected with the character Dorothy clicking them together and stating consistently, “there’s no location like home”– were taken from the Judy Garland Museum in the starlet’s home town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
Martin, who had actually attempted to turn his life around after serving jail time for a previous theft, provided into pressure from an “old mob partner” to take the shoes in what his legal representatives referred to as “one last rating.”
They stated he erroneously thought the slippers were decorated with genuine rubies, which he wished to offer.
He apparently had actually never ever seen the cherished 1939 movie.
The shoes was recuperated in an FBI sting in 2018 however no charges were submitted at the time. A million-dollar benefit for info causing an arrest was used.
In May, Terry Martin was arraigned by a grand jury and charged with one count of theft of significant art work.
He pleaded guilty in October.
The slippers are amongst 4 sets that Garland used throughout the making of the film.
They are, the Justice Department formerly stated, “extensively deemed amongst the most identifiable souvenirs in American movie history.”
It stated that at the time of the theft the shoes were guaranteed for $1-million however their existing worth is around $3.5-million.