The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington, D.C., on Sunday announced that 49-year-old Mario Bustamante Leiva has ...

Noem was dining in Washington, D.C. when her purse went missing. Authorities believe at least two people worked together on a string of purse robberies in the city.

"On Saturday, April 26, 2025, members of the Metropolitan Police Department and the United States Secret Service located and ...

Prosecutors filed federal robbery and wire fraud charges Monday against the man accused of stealing Homeland Security ...

That means Bustamante-Leiva — an illegal migrant, homeless alcoholic and serial criminal with a laundry list of crimes going back years — was able to get within grabbing distance of ...

Leiva, 49, was one of two migrants taken into custody over the weekend for allegedly snatching Kristi Noem’s designer ...

The man, Mario Bustamante Leiva, has been charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and robbery. Leiva also appeared ...

On April 17, 2025, at the Westin Hotel on the 900 block of 9th Street, NW, a victim reported her purse was stolen from the ...

A suspect has been charged in the theft of Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse from a Washington, D.C. over Easter. The identified suspect is a Chilean National ...

A man accused of stealing a purse from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was charged Monday in federal court with ...

Mario Bustamante Leiva is a Chilean national who was previously busted for a similar scheme in London, law enforcement sources told the New York Post. Who is Mario Bustamante Leiva, illegal ...

Bustamante-Leiva, who is staying in the United States illegally, is suspected of being a member of a major robbery ring ...