A suburban Philadelphia judge has sentenced a housekeeper to 10 years of probation in the theft of a Benjamin Franklin bust reportedly worth $3 million.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Friday (http://bit.ly/18e2ilX) the probation will run concurrent with the six-year federal prison sentence 47-year-old Andrea Lawton received in May for transporting stolen property across state lines.
Lawton, of Mobile, Ala., was living in Philadelphia when the bust was taken in August 2012 from a Bryn Mawr home where she'd been a housecleaner. She fled to Alabama with the bust and was arrested in Elkton, Md., where she planned to sell it.
The 25-pound plaster bust was made by French artist Jean-Antoine Houdon when Franklin visited Paris in 1778.
It was broken while in Lawton's possession and is undergoing $40,000 in repairs.
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Information from: The Philadelphia Inquirer, http://www.philly.com
