Florida: A man who paid 8 million euros for a private island was arrested for stealing from a department store

A former American lawyer was arrested in Key West, Florida, for stealing $ 300 worth of merchandise from a department store, just days after acquiring a private island in the region worth eight million dollars.

Andrew Lippi, 54 years oldI bought coffee machines, spotlights and bed sheets in a "Kmart". Monroe County police said the former lawyer he tried to return the boxes of products that he had bought with cheaper goods to recover their money in cash, according to the newspaper "Daily Mail".

According to ABC, Lippi denied making any changes to the products he returned. "I asked him about the coffee machine, he had replaced it with a basketball, and he said that the store employee should have realized that there was no machine inside the box"said the police officer responsible for the arrest.

"I asked him about the lights and he said that he had paid too much money for them and that he did not know how to put them up," explained the manager.

According to local media, when store employees checked the boxes where the former lawyer had returned, they found basketballs and pillowcases, not the products that Lippi had previously acquired. According to the authorities, he had already tried the same tactics three times in recent days.

A week before the events, Lippi acquired eight million private island on Thompson Island in the Florida Keys.. The property belonged to the philanthropist and developer Edward B. Knight. The lawyer also owns a 12-room house that was used to film a season of The Real World series, located in Key West in 2006.

Lippi had stated that he was considering living on the island that he bought, in addition to renting it for money. The former attorney also rents the house where the series "The Real World" was recorded for two thousand dollars a night.

Lippi was arrested for theft last weekend but released a day later. You will have to appear in court on April 18 to testify before a judge.