Margo Adams Sentenced on Charge of Shoplifting

Margo Adams, the former Miss Stanton who filed suit against baseball star Wade Boggs after their four-year love affair broke up last year, pleaded guilty of shoplifting Monday in Newport Beach.

As part of three years of unsupervised probation, Adams was ordered to pay $1,030 in fines and penalties and to put in 80 hours of community service.

Because the shoplifting occurred while she was on probation for a previous conviction, Adams was sentenced to an additional 50 hours of community work.

The previous case, in which she was charged with seven felony counts alleging credit card fraud in 1984, was settled last January when she pleaded guilty to trespassing, a misdemeanor. Adams, 33, was not present in Harbor Municipal Court on Monday when her attorney presented her written and notarized plea to Municipal Judge Christopher W. Strople. The judge accepted the negotiated sentence, giving Adams the choice of 48 hours in jail or 80 hours of work.

Adams was placed under citizens arrest March 19 after she left the Nordstrom store at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa. Nordstrom security officers said she had walked away with a $258 woman’s coat without paying.

As part of her sentence, Adams was ordered not to enter a Nordstrom store during her probation.

Adams’ suit against Boggs, the 30-year-old third baseman for the Boston Red Sox, is pending in Orange County Superior Court. In it, she alleges that from 1984 to 1988 she was Boggs’ nearly constant companion on road trips when he was away from his family.

She is seeking damages based on her allegation that Boggs promised to pay her compensation for giving up her job as a mortgage broker and traveling with him.