Former “Real Housewives of Potomac” cast member Mia Fields-Thornton was arrested and jailed Wednesday by Atlanta police on a warrant that accuses her of stealing thousands of dollars of furniture from a condo, according to reports from Atlanta Police Department officials.
Police took Fields-Thornton, 40, into custody and booked her at Fulton County jail on a felony charge of larceny, jail records and police reports show. Customs and Border Protection agents at the Atlanta airport identified her as having an outstanding warrant and called police, who detained her, police officials said.
A property management agent filed a report to Atlanta police on Nov. 6, which alleges that Fields-Thornton moved out of a condo she rented in the middle of the night Oct. 28 and removed furniture, including a flat-screen TV from the wall, without authorization. The agent provided invoices for the missing property that totaled $11,000, the report said.
Thornton waived her first court appearance on Thursday, and a judge set a $2,500 bond, according to a report form Fox5 in Atlanta. An attorney for Fields-Thornton could not be immediately identified.
Fields-Thornton joined the Real Housewives franchise during the show’s sixth season and was introduced to the group by Karen Huger, another former housewife who has had run-ins with the law and was released from jail on her fourth DUI charge in September.
From the beginning, Fields-Thornton identified herself as a hardworking mother of two who owned several franchises of The Joint Chiropractic, a wellness-based chiropractic company, throughout the D.C. area with her ex-husband, Gordon Thornton, and his brother.
The family lived in a high-rise Baltimore penthouse, then moved to a large rental home in Potomac, Maryland, before having to downsize after Gordon’s brother allegedly revoked the couple’s access to the company bank account, she relayed on the show. The couple separated in 2023 but continued to raise their kids together, as Mia began publicly dating her high school sweetheart, Atlanta radio host Incognito.
But tensions between the three reached a fever pitch during her final season, when the paternity of her son was in dispute between the two men. In January, Thornton walked out of the show’s season nine reunion, after castmate Gizelle Bryant criticized her parenting skills for letting the paternity debate play out on the show. Thornton never returned for filming and announced in April she was moving to Atlanta.
In October, another cast member, Wendy Osefo, and her husband, Edward Osefo, were arrested and charged with multiple counts of insurance fraud and making a false statement to police.
The couple, authorities say, staged a robbery at their Carroll County, Maryland, home last spring, then filed insurance claims for more than $450,000 in losses, including more than $20,000 worth of jewelry and luxury goods that the couple had previously returned for refunds. Sheriff’s deputies searched their home and found at least 15 items the couple said had been stolen, according to police.
On Monday, prosecutors filed new court documents alleging the couple had 40 credit or debit cards and, at times, used the aliases “Pam Oliver” and “Eddie Hennessy” to intentionally “mask their identity.” The state lawyers are seeking banking records, they say, to “corroborate the return information” and “show a pattern of excessive spending.”
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