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She was a juvenile - i read it somewhere she stole from Bellevue Square when she was a teenager
if you do a name search
http://dw.courts.wa.gov/index.cfm?fa=home.namelist
you can see a "Juvenile Respondent" record in 1997
i will try to find the news article about the shoplifting incident
EDIT:
Here's the article
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016719977_missing09m.html
"
Biryukova had no additional adult criminal history, but was charged with second-degree theft as a juvenile when she was 16 after she was caught stealing clothes from the Bellevue Square Nordstrom store, according to juvenile-court records."
Court documents say she was stopped by a loss-prevention officer, who recovered six tank tops, three skirts, three pairs of jeans and a dress, together valued at $587.90, that Biryukova had stuffed into old shopping bags.
"Julia admitted to the theft, saying that she did it because she didn't think it was fair that her friends stole and had all these new clothes that they didn't pay for and she wanted her clothes for free; she also said it was peer pressure," a Bellevue officer wrote in a police report.
The case was dismissed after Biryukova completed 24 hours of community service and six months of community supervision, court records show.
I think the case where she's a juvenile respondent is not connected to the shoplifting incident. She would be listed as a defendant, not respondent, if it was, unless juvenile criminal court operates vastly different in WA than it does in CA.