For a Minnesota man, Dorothy Gale's ruby slippers may send him to jail, not Kansas. The iconic movie shoes, worn by Judy Garland in 1939's The Wizard of Oz, were stolen in 2005, and prosecutors claim that the perpetrator has now been caught.
ABC News reports that prosecutors allege Minnesota resident Terry Martin stole the slippers in 2005 from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota — Garland's hometown. The shoes were recovered by the FBI and Grand Rapids police in 2018 as part of a sting operation; their current whereabouts are unrevealed. Martin faces one count of theft of an object of cultural heritage from the care, custody or control of a museum, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. The U.S.
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