'RHOP' alum Mia Thornton arrested in Atlanta on suspicion of $11,000 furniture theft

Mia Thornton, who near “The Real Housewives of Potomac” earlier leaving earlier this twelvemonth to determination with her children to Atlanta, was arrested Wednesday astatine the airdrome determination connected suspicion of theft from the condo that she had been sharing with a roommate.

Officers were called to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport connected Wednesday to cod a “wanted person” who was being held astatine the airport’s Customs and Border Protection office, according to the Atlanta Police Department.

“Officers identified the idiosyncratic arsenic Ms. Mia Fields-Thornton, who had an progressive City of Atlanta warrant related to a larceny involving an alleged furnishings theft. Ms. Fields-Thornton was taken into custody without incidental and transported to the Fulton County Jail for processing,” the connection said.

The alleged theft was reported to constabulary by a spot manager who, according to a constabulary report, said that Thornton had rented the condo with a roommate. He said the 2 “suddenly moved retired of the portion successful the mediate of the night” successful precocious October, taking with them “all the furnishings which was successful the portion anterior to their determination successful arsenic good arsenic the tv which was connected the wall.”

Thornton’s roommate was creator Jared McGriff, according to the report. The spot manager provided receipts showing the furnishings and TV were worthy $11,000, the study said.

In assemblage camera footage released by police, Thornton, who spent 4 seasons arsenic a regular formed subordinate connected “RHOP” earlier leaving aft Season 9, tells officers, “I conscionable privation him to enactment that furnishings back. Like, this is, capable is enough. I person respective emails from my roommate telling maine — it’s ridiculous.”

Thornton said “he” had the cardinal to a retention unit, presumably wherever the items were being kept.

Mia Thornton, 40, separated from hubby Gordon Thornton successful 2023, past dated nationally syndicated DJ Incognito for a twelvemonth earlier breaking up with him and reuniting with her estranged hubby this past New Year’s Eve. She has since referred to her household narration connected Instagram arsenic co-parenting with the “#bestexhusbandever.”

The erstwhile Housewife announced successful April that she was leaving the D.C. country “to afloat put successful her adjacent large venture: the enlargement of The Tox Franchise into Georgia.” Thornton had stormed disconnected the acceptable of the “RHOP” Season 9 reunion amusement aft a castmate suggested she was a “terrible mother” who had leveraged her youngest child’s paternity for the payment of the show.