Woman who fell into fountain faces theft charges, has criminal record

[The Straight Story]

Woman who fell into fountain faces theft charges, has criminal record

The Reading woman who became an Internet sensation by falling into a fountain while sending a text on her cell phone was in Berks County Court on Thursday for a status hearing on theft-by-deception and related charges.

Cathy A. Cruz Marrero, 49, was charged in October 2009 for using a co-worker's credit cards to make more than $5,000 in purchases at two local stores.

But $1,055 of those purchases were dismissed from the case in previous hearings.

She also has several theft cases and a hit-and-run charge on her record.

Her appearance Thursday before Judge Peter W. Schmehl was shortly after she and her Reading attorney in the Berkshire Mall case, James M. Polyak, went on ABC's "Good Morning America" to talk about the fall into the fountain.

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[Incitatus]

1. This is another ridiculous case by a stupid person.

How about people just watch were they are walking? She could have walked into and hurt an elderly person or a baby in a stroller. No, it must be the mall's fault that she was acting like an idiot and walked right into a giant fountain.