Mia Thornton, who left “The Actual Housewives of Potomac” earlier than leaving earlier this yr to maneuver together with her youngsters to Atlanta, was arrested Wednesday on the airport there on suspicion of theft from the condominium that she had been sharing with a roommate.
Officers have been known as to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport on Wednesday to gather a “wished particular person” who was being held on the airport’s Customs and Border Safety workplace, in response to the Atlanta Police Division.
“Officers recognized the person as Ms. Mia Fields-Thornton, who had an energetic Metropolis of Atlanta warrant associated to a larceny involving an alleged furnishings theft. Ms. Fields-Thornton was taken into custody with out incident and transported to the Fulton County Jail for processing,” the assertion stated.
The alleged theft was reported to police by a property supervisor who, in response to a police report, stated that Thornton had rented the condominium with a roommate. He stated the 2 “abruptly moved out of the unit in the course of the night time” in late October, taking with them “all of the furnishings which was within the unit previous to their transfer in in addition to the television which was on the wall.”
Thornton’s roommate was artist Jared McGriff, in response to the report. The property supervisor supplied receipts exhibiting the furnishings and TV have been value $11,000, the report stated.
In physique digital camera footage launched by police, Thornton, who spent 4 seasons as an everyday forged member on “RHOP” earlier than leaving after Season 9, tells officers, “I simply need him to place that furnishings again. Like, that is, sufficient is sufficient. I’ve a number of emails from my roommate telling me — it’s ridiculous.”
Thornton stated “he” had the important thing to a storage unit, presumably the place the gadgets have been being saved.
Mia Thornton, 40, separated from husband Gordon Thornton in 2023, then dated nationally syndicated DJ Incognito for a yr earlier than breaking apart with him and reuniting together with her estranged hubby this previous New Yr’s Eve. She has since referred to her household relationship on Instagram as co-parenting with the “#bestexhusbandever.”
The previous Housewife introduced in April that she was leaving the D.C. space “to completely spend money on her subsequent main enterprise: the growth of The Tox Franchise into Georgia.” Thornton had stormed off the set of the “RHOP” Season 9 reunion present after a castmate recommended she was a “horrible mom” who had leveraged her youngest baby’s paternity for the advantage of the present.
