In deep water: Woman who fell into fountain while texting admits to spending thousands of dollars on stolen credit card



A woman who shot to fame for falling into a mall fountain after walking and texting has pleaded guilty to buying goods with stolen credit cards.

Cathy Cruz Marrero, whose tumble was captured on video and posted to YouTube, was sentenced to three months of house arrest for the crime.

She bought $4,177 worth of jewellery and $1,055 worth of Target goods with a credit card she stole from a co-worker in Reading, Pennsylvania.

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In at the deep end: Cathy Cruz Marrero, who was caught on camera falling into a mall fountain, has pleaded guilty to buying goods with a stolen credit card

Ileana Rivera, who worked with Marrero at a Zale store in a Berkshire mall, discovered the payments and Marrero promised to pay her back.

When she failed to, Rivera reported the thefts to police.

Marrero, 50, was ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution and serve five years of probation after the house arrest, the Reading Eagle reported.

But Judge Thomas G. Parisi dismissed charges of identity theft and access device fraud.

Viral: The YouTube video shows Marrero texting and walking at a mall

Making a splash: Not looking where she is going, Marrero falls over the edge of the fountain. She later complained no one came to help her



Marrero fell into the public eye in January 2011 when surveillance footage of her tumbling into a mall fountain was posted on YouTube.

She was texting a friend from church when she walked straight up to the fountain and tripped over its ledge, becoming fully submerged in the water.



During an interview on Good Morning America, she hinted that she planned on suing the mall after no one came to her aid.



'I didn't get an apology, what I got was, "At least nobody knows it was you",' Marrero said. 'But I knew it was me.'

Caught: Marrero, pictured with her husband, promised her co-worker she would pay the money back, but when she failed, the woman called the police

Paying the price: The judge also ordered her to pay $5,000 restitution

No such lawsuit materialised.

It is not the first time the YouTube star has been in deep water with the law.

She served a year of probation after she was convicted of a hit-and-run charge in Berks in 2009, the Eagle reported.



Cruz was also convicted of retail theft four times and theft once in New York from 1997 to 1999, and retail theft once in York County in 1999.

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