A dog walker will have to answer in court after allegedly stealing her neighbor’s newspaper.
Jill Davie, 70, who lives on the Historic Side of The Villages, is scheduled to appear May 26 in Lake County Court to answer to a misdemeanor charge of theft.
The former Michigan resident, who lives at 1710 W. Schwartz Blvd., had been walking her dog at 6:43 a.m. April 15 when she was captured on video walking up a driveway at another home on West Schwartz Boulevard, according to a report from the Lady Lake Police Department. Davie bent down and picked up the homeowner’s copy of The Villages Daily Sun, still in the plastic delivery bag. The surveillance showed a woman with white hair wearing a purple long-sleeved shirt. Her dog was wearing a harness and an illuminated neon green collar.
The homeowner, who did not know the identity of the woman in the surveillance footage, was so incensed that he went down that same day to report the theft at the Lady Lake Police Department. He estimated the value of the newspaper at $1.75…