Deputies: 'Psychic' scared girl into stealing

[AsahinaKimi]

PALMDALE, California (AP) -- A woman who claimed to be a psychic persuaded a 12-year-old girl to steal jewelry from her family and throw it into a cauldron to lift a curse and appease evil spirits, authorities said Friday.

Jackeline Lopez, 42, of Palmdale was arrested last month for investigation of extortion. She has since posted bond and is scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 18.

Lopez did not return a message left on an answering machine at her home.

The girl, a classmate of Lopez's daughter, stole more than $10,000 worth of unique jewelry from her home before her parents realized something was going on and questioned their children, sheriff's Detective Luan Dang said.

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[Enrique]

1. where did the girl find a cauldron?

:shrug:

[AsahinaKimi]

2. They sell them at all

The Halloween costume shops, probably!!

[joeybee12]

3. If that woman convinced her steal, I bet she convinced her an ordinary kitchen

pot was a cauldron.

[SpiralHawk]

4. Actually, the foresnic team has determined it was a Pizza Pan (R)

from some joint called Godfather's (R).

They are on the trail now, and raising Cain about the psychic perp's purloined pizza-pan plot.

[joeybee12]

5. NO!

Too many puns in one post!!! :spank: