A Bagatelle woman has pleaded guilty for stealing of two NYC lipsticks valued at $47.90 from Beauty Wise Store located in Roseau.
Lisa Sandy, 20, appeared before Magistrate Bernard Pacquette on Monday.
Police Prosecutor Sergeant Valda Powell, who presented the facts of the case, said Sandy entered the store at about 3:30 pm on March 7th 2015 and proceeded to the fashion area.
She then took two lipsticks and placed them in her bag. She also took two other items and proceeded to the cashier to pay.
However, she did not pay for the two lipsticks.
The store owner realized that Sandy did not pay for the lipsticks and immediately alerted the security officer who questioned her.
“Sir, look it wi, I sorry; I don’t have more money to pay for the lipstick,” she said. “At times I do stupid things and I am sorry I promise not to do it again.”
Sandy told the court that she didn’t feel it was necessary to have been arrested and placed in the cells for two days since she was on her monthly cycle.
But Pacquette told her the detention was necessary because she stole the lipsticks.
He warned that she wasn’t supposed to steal.
Magistrate Pacquette gave Sandy a second chance because he believed she was remorseful and humiliated by the situation.
She was fined $1,000 suspended for one year or in default, three months in prison.
That looks like a MAC Heroine lipstick to me, more likely to cost around U.S.$.16.00. Why use that if your article is about NYC cosmetics, it is very confusing.
The ideal image of beauty the media projects to young women and men makes them feel that they need to have certain items (clothing or make-up) to meet the standards that mainstream media portrays as beautiful.This case is more than just a petty legal issue is has deep underlying psychological , to be more specific self esteem issues. People steal food and clothing for themselves and family members , but these are basic needs. I am not supporting the theft of food and clothing but as far as I am concerned Maslow would never include lipstick as an item needed for survival. Self esteem issues is evident in this case. Perceptions of beauty continue to be skewed by the media and social networks. Young women need to be comfortable in their own skin and not have a heavy reliance on make-up. I have nothing against the use of make-up since it enhances certain facial features and in some cultures it can used as a form of art but i believe that we should embrace our natural state.
First of all she right to steal that damn lip stick it to damn expensive. when I come down to Dominica I will bring some for her a lip stick should be at list $3,oo one stupid lipstick for all that money is a travesty
pple talking bout the young woman stealing 2 lipsticks. but at the price it is bought, and the price it is re-sold by these suppliers, making profits as wide as the ocean on one sale, did the store really have to press charges against the young woman? really??
there are so many altimatums to pressing charges. make her pay double, ask her to never return to the store, amongst others.
im not condoning what she did, but every body makes mistakes, and as the article said, the courts felt she’s remorseful for her actions. she’s young, with all the vanity ridden peers, i’m sure she must’ve felt some typa way that she cldnt afford a lipstick and she made a mistake. but damn!! with all the nonesense happening with heads of government, police, murderers, drug dealers, GRAND THEFT, ROBBERY.. a young girl steals two lipstics and shes arrested. smh. i feel sorry for d young girl but i say SHAME on the beauty supply store, profitting so much on Dominicans but can’t bare to part with 2…
Omg!! Nyc lipstick the cheapest piece of craps in makeup.50.00 really Dominica is too expensive reason enough to steal common 1000.00 for what?all these politicians who needs to pay money they stole and should be in jail.running around freely sleeping with under age girls these are the ones to be in jail.I love dominica but if this is the cost for lipstick.what is the cost of a pair of pumps.poor girl.
She was wrong to steal the lipstick. The store could have been lenient and with a stern warning ask her to bring the money for them or take the lipstick away from her. The fact is she took the lipstick and did not pay for it. We have no idea how many lipsticks or other items are stolen from the store on a regularly basis and so they caught someone. A Lipstick maybe a small thing, but 47 x2 is $94.00.
Now if as some writers say that brand of lipstick sells for $0.99 US and a US dollar is $2.68 EC. The store is making a hefty profit on unsuspecting customers with that lipstick. Now that is something entirely different and may worth checking into. In case there is a case of inflated pricing.
What is not yours should not be taken. We all steal at one time or other, we just don’t get caught or we do not consider it stealing. Reading and submitting posts during our work day and not our break is stealing time from your employer. And time is money. Our employer’s.
$48 for 2 NYC lipsticks? Its 99 cent here (US) in almost every pharmacy, walmart, beauty supply store etc. And it smells and looks like crap too.
Sorry i meant *highway
U know where the people buy their lipstick? All u just like to blah blah blah.., yes i live in the us too and i don’t have to let people know , but u had to be saying where they buy their lipstick, cause u live in america. How u so sure is not another place the people buy their stuff…
NYC is the brand foolish. You obviously don’t know what you’re talking about. It does sell for under a buck in every pharmacy in the US.
And if u knew better u would not buy 99 cents lip stick cause they put all kinds of dangerous chemicals in this stuff. Especially , the dollar stores, and i know that because i listen to the news and no i don’t use lipstick cause it makes people look like ms piggy…and i am 100% natural woman.
All you government really brook papa
A thousand dollars charge for two lipstick??
read and understand nuisance.
I wish i could show my identity here,. A load of bull .
Murderers and drug dealers running free and Petty criminals paying the price?
The so-called justice system in Dominica stinks. Major theft and crime go unpunished while those who commit such petty crimes are fined. I know she had no right to steal but those who violate the law most times go unpunished.
Such is the judicial system in Dominica. Those who are supposed to uphold the law are only concerned about their pockets.
What a shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is heart breaking…I don’t condone stealing and agree their needs to be consequences, but this is extreme. Are we talking about NYC lipstick, which is $0.99 cents at walmart? DNO please inbox me an address to send some lipstick for this young lady. This is not worth tarnishing her character and I hope she will not allow this mistake to define her future. God help Dominica-the land of my birth!
And who said lipstick is 99 cents by the way there is tax…
you lie penville you living!
Hope it was her right shade. Cheap lipstick at that.
the girl steal 2 lipstick,they charge her already but DEM POLICE KILL YOU DOE HEARING NOTHING ABOUT IT
DAMN IT MAN
In the usa that lipstick is 99cents for one.So those 2 lipsticks cost almost $50 in Dominica, My god no wonder that poor girl had to steal that. They need price control in that little Dominica.Wicked people.
Sorry it no way can that be justify to this young woman i feel her pain when u poor and destitue no one care i hope this young woman will be learn from her mistake but i feel deeply she should be offered to pay for them should not spend anytime in a cell and the police should have handled the matter professional. Am so disappointed to read this on DNO
This is absolutely ludicrous! Oh how quick we are to publish the names of young people who have made mistakes, yet, we are very protective of the child molesters. Young Lady, I am a a proud product of the Village of Bagatelle, and know that we are all capable of short comings. Please use this mishap as an opportunity to make changes for your betterment! In life, there are many hurdles to face. Seek and serve the Messiah! One Love!
The Dominican justice system is a bunch of mofo BS. A few months ago there was a story about a rapist but DNO said they could not publish his name because of certain legalities. But you can publish the name of a lipstick thief? I read DNO every couple days and it seems the theme of the Dominican justice system is screw the little criminal and set the big criminal free. If that woman was a murdering drug dealer she probably would not have spent 2 days in jail she would have been released from the police station that night. DOMINICA JUSTICE SYSTEM YOU ARE EMBARASSING YOURSELF. Wake up.
Young lady keep ya head up some of them frowing children n they walking with their head up
While some may think… Just a lipstick!!…. Stealing is wrong there is no two way about it. The bible says Thou shall not steal ….
Sorry she had to be humiliated like that but it is what it is.
Now adultery should be punished like that!
U mean adulterers should be stoned!
Shame .
on anothe note
Wtf!!!!
$47.5 for NYC lipstick. Cheap lipsticks they selling so expensive.
Ridiculous.
All the people that stealing big time now started just the way she did by stealing a mango or a kenip from somebody tree. If she is not taught a lesson now she will be a big time thief in a few years.
The woman said imidiately that she is sorry.
Why jail? And as a first time offender where the pity. $1000.
Double punishment.
Where is the right of a woman.?
Judge she had her period.police officer .
Am crying the justice system is not fea
The young knife boy use that knife carnival.go get he mama.we reading more of all the other cases those that gone and those to come.May God help .lady i love you because you admit you sorry.what about the bigger thieves behind offices and close doors.child molestation and corruption. We reading .
That brand of lipstick is a bit more costly than others in store. Really comfortable to wear, I’ve got two but I paid for them. Avyege. You can’t afford it, leave it alone. Now you have to face embarrassment over two stolen lipsticks. Steal for steal, the sanitary napkins instead. At least the issue of need vs. want would perhaps allow the magistrate some sympathy towards you. Come on, young ladies.
u probably talking about NYX lipstick which is very expensive, but worth it. NYC is crap
what?? they fined her $1000 for stealing 2 lipsticks? no way thats beyond crazy….thats almost the same amount as finding someone with marijuana. smh we really need to take a look at our laws and punishments
Really??? I have thousands of dollars worth of stuff that has been stolen and so do other people. What are you doing about that??? Lipstick is insignificant when it comes to the big picture of theft going on in DA. But it does show the mentality of a lot of people here……..if you want it, just take it from somebody else when you think that they aren’t looking. The police pick and choose the easy cases and the courts make the money. What a scam.
Now you know what is important in DA……..the unimportant and insignificant.
dno..admin,,,,correct that,, not bagatelle by grand bay,,,, that bagatelle have nobody by that name,,,be specific please,,
Come on sister, I’m on my daily cycle not one but two, a bicycle and still I have to be locked up if I steal. Don’t bring that as an excuse now! Cycle is not an illness but health, is when you don’t have it you must worry.
People kill and they out roaming the streets and menacing people. Where is the justice in Dominica. You steal 2 lipsticks, no bail, you hold up big businesses and out on bail. I am just wondering whats happening to justice in Dominica.
She was wrong to steal dem lipsticks I mean goosh man u don’t have d money to buy them live them ppl lipsticks alone don’t steal them stupesss some Dominicans to so spoil which life may I ask ? She do her crime let her paid for it ……zoi pa Feb
Man ,She was wrong to steal,U do not have money,walk out
I believe she’s from Goodwill DNO. She maybe lied about her address.
First of all NYC lipstick retails for $2. Why are the charging almost $50? Why such a steep fine? Someone should set up a go fund me page for her to page the fine. This is absolutely insane.
They should just let the girl pay for the lipstick and not watse tme with that in court wen there are more important matters to discuss in the court
This is ridiculous! Is there a fund set up to pay this woman’s court fees.
Bagatelle ????wrong address I think..admin check that again!
This woman is not from Bagatelle. think that there is a hamlet some where in Soufriere. I stand corrected.
Wow! you can get 2 of those lipsticks on amazon.com for $2.29. Talk about an abuse of power and a colossal waste of the judicial system’s time!!!
It is wrong and a crime to steal anything.
Without punishment there would be no justice.
However, the purpose of punishment in a civilized society is not so much to hurt the offender but to teach a lesson and rehabilitate. Justice does not become something less when it is mingled with mercy. On the contrary it becomes more effective.
For stealing two tubes of lipstick worth maybe $3.00 this young woman first spends two days in a cell during her difficult time of the month, and also receives a fine of $1,000.00 OR two months in jail. It appears to me that the two days in the cell was rude treatment. It seems this is a girl who likely does not have money. The $1,000.00 fine is going to be a problem whether it is now or a year from now. The girl is probably not working or would likely have trouble getting a job now. The magistrate knows better than anybody what two months in jail will do to a 20 year old.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill. International Evangelist.
Oops
That was three months in jail not two.
Sincerely, Rev. Don Hill
What’s nyc lipstick.?
NYC is a brand name of lipstick and makeup
It’s a no name lipstick (american brand) sold here in the states at drugstores dor $1.99 US dollars
Where is the justice for the judge who’s home was firebombed?
And d big drug dealers that spoiling people children prancing
The streets of Roseau freely. Some of them don’t even
Know what inside a cell look like. The young lady stole lipstick
Which is wrong but to be humiliated like that is too much. Wake
up my people.
I agree there are so many drug dealers spoiling people children all over the the place and nothing much is done about it. Stealing is wrong but so much publicity for stealing a lipstick.
Wow… besides the fact that she stole that, what’s really killing me is that 2 nyc lipsticks valued at $47.90?? Highway Robery. NYC is one of the cheapest drugstore brands. They are sold under $2 USD. Wow that’s some serious markup.
Wow… besides the fact that she stole that, what’s really killing me is that 2 nyc lipsticks valued at $47.90?? Highway Robert. NYC is one of the cheapest drugstore brands. They are sold under $2 USD. Wow that’s some serious markup.
A classic example of taking sledge hammer to crack a peanut. I mean come on, in the world we live in today that should have been with without having the poor young lady spend 2 days in jail.
In terms of the fine, I find it rather hefty for such a petty crime. Just my opinion. How I wish justice was always as swift for everyone. It will be one year in July/August that this gentleman from Portsmouth was found dead in police custody. Persons are yet to be tried by the courts, why, only God knows.
thats sad. Those lipsticks costs $1.99 at cvs. Who’s really the thief here,
Sorry had it been food because you were hungry I would have understood, and no mater how far away I am I may have helped you pay the charges, but lipstick na….how ever my advise to you next time make your own lipstick just melt some red crayon in the microwave…or melt some melo cream butter mix with annato…here you go LIPSTICK…You did not steal because you are a volea, but just because you wanted to look pretty to smile for boys, but you need no lipstick to enhance your beauty just brush your teeth clean even if you have to use blue soap and tooth stick….you will never volea again, or ever look at lipstick again……but even if, lipstick in DA expensive papa…from $1.98 US to $47.90?…WOW.
Dominica has finally lost it!
A woman steals 2 lipsticks; her case is rushed through the courts and she is fined 1000 dollars. A woman robs the poor pensioners of their much needed pension and her case is still in abeyance for more than 18 months.
Nothing more will shock me about Dominica! My beloved country has really lost its way and its priorities.
AMEN, Preach sister preach
Sorry to disappoint you Kumbaya, but last time I looked I was definitely not a sister!
A little boy was raped by a grown man. 3yrs later…court case finally called.
when hungry people steal cheese and goes to court its ok but a young woman stealing lip stick should be set free. come on people
You think before you type that?
Okay nevermind, I read wrong lol
If someone is hungry and steal food to eat that’s different. But to steal for vanity items is unjustifiable. She started with lipstick – what next? A big mirror to see her put it on??? She might have done it before. I don’t think she should have spent time in a cell. Community service would have been better – with no lipstick on.
You should have taken some sanitary napkins instead then maybe they could justify your need..
Exactly my point! lol
Come on… that was overkill!!! To destroy a young woman’s life for 2 measly lipsticks which probably cost $1.99 wholesale. Magwaysa!!
Who destroyed her life may I ask???? After taking someones property without asking you cant dictate to them what punishment you deserve.. SMH
@Words
Judge ye not lest ye be judged.
When you will have never made a mistake in your life, then you can make that statement.
The punishment should suit the crime. In this case it is terribly excessive.
I beg your pardon! Did she steal or not? So who ruined her life, the storekeeper perhaps or the police. I only wish our really heavy criminals, with the right connections, would receive the same treatment also.
I would really like to know what is the wrong here. The way people think these days. The items were not hers to take. Period.
@ Always grateful. Do you even understand what judge not that you be judged means???? A crime was committed of which someone admitted to and was further found guilty by the COURT NOT ME and given a punishment.
$1000 dollars for two lipstick. Bondieu. ..
thats the charge of theft.not for the lipstick per se
Beauty-Wise coudn’t just let the girl pay for the lipstick? The embarassment of getting caught was enough to let her change.
DNO you confused me: “She was fined $1,000 suspended for one year or in default of payment, three months in prison.” If the sentence was suspended why do you say in ‘default of payment’? I take suspended to mean she will only pay if she gets in trouble with the law again within the one year, hence the reason you said and correctly so that she was spared.
Please help ease my confusion.
Thank you
I think they meant she has a period of one year to pay the $1000.00 and “in default of payment”, which I believe means if she can’t pay the fine, then she must face 3 months in prison.
@ Joe. . .”She was fined $1,000 suspended for one year or in default of payment, three months in prison.”
This means she has a year to pay the $1,000.00. If at the end of the year that sum remains unpaid, she will be found to be in default of payment in which case she will be imprisoned for 3 months.
She was charged $1000 which is suspended for one year. If she gets into trouble within that year and returns to the court, she will be required to pay that fine of $1000 and should she fail to do so, she will then have to serve the three months in jail.
For a lipstick Pacquette this young lady needs some rehabilitation.
Is the little things that counts.
Rehab from what may I ask?