MONROE - A Monroe woman who burglarized a local garden store after reportedly drinking two and half pints of brandy was sentenced Friday, Jan. 25, to 18 months of probation.
Linda Ann Kuoppala, 36, is ordered to perform 150 hours of community service, pay about $530 in restitution and seek counseling.
Court records indicate she was riding her bicycle around Monroe late one evening last June when she stopped at the Garden Spot, 3002 13th St., punched a window to get in and stole $18.50 in rolled and loose change.
Staff at the store had to clean up blood smeared around the entire retail area from the cuts Kuoppala sustained in breaking the window, according to a court document filed by a Garden Spot employee.
Kuoppala was also charged with returning to the store in August to apologize, in violation of a court order that she not be on the premises. Court records indicate she had two shots of brandy before her August visit to the Garden Spot and arrived at the store barefoot, "disheveled and slightly dazed."
When officers arrived to arrest her, she spit at them - a detail in the incident to which she later pleaded no contest.
Linda Ann Kuoppala, 36, is ordered to perform 150 hours of community service, pay about $530 in restitution and seek counseling.
Court records indicate she was riding her bicycle around Monroe late one evening last June when she stopped at the Garden Spot, 3002 13th St., punched a window to get in and stole $18.50 in rolled and loose change.
Staff at the store had to clean up blood smeared around the entire retail area from the cuts Kuoppala sustained in breaking the window, according to a court document filed by a Garden Spot employee.
Kuoppala was also charged with returning to the store in August to apologize, in violation of a court order that she not be on the premises. Court records indicate she had two shots of brandy before her August visit to the Garden Spot and arrived at the store barefoot, "disheveled and slightly dazed."
When officers arrived to arrest her, she spit at them - a detail in the incident to which she later pleaded no contest.