An influencer has been sentenced to three years in prison for her role in a series of burglaries.
Morena “More” Rial was sentenced on Wednesday (1 July) after a court in San Isidro, Argentina, approved a plea agreement between the prosecution and her defence.
The 27-year-old and the rest of her gang were accused of carrying out three residential burglaries.
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She was arrested over one that took place at a house in Villa Adelina at about 10pm on 18 January 2025.
According to prosecutor Patricio Ferrari, Rial arrived at the property with four accomplices while the homeowners were on holiday.
Two of the group “climbed over the two-metre-high fence from the street into the front courtyard”, according to court documents.
“Using tools they had brought in their backpacks, they forced open the bars on one of the windows, lifted the wooden shutter and entered the house.
“Once inside, they searched the various rooms for valuables and stole at least one laptop.”
Afterwards, the getaway car driven by Rial was captured on CCTV at a nearby petrol station, as reported by Need To Know.
Inside the station toilets, a police officer recognised the influencer and said: “You’re More.”
Rial replied: “Oh yes, love.”
When the officer returned to her patrol car, she told her colleague she had just seen “a celebrity”.
Minutes later, the pair were dispatched to the nearby property after a burglar alarm was triggered, completely unaware it was Rial and her gang who had allegedly just ransacked the home.
The influencer, who has hundreds of thousands of followers, was also charged over a burglary in Castelar earlier that month.
She and the rest of the gang allegedly made off with US$32,000 (£23,952) in cash, 50 iPhone chargers, 25 pairs of Apple earphones, 10 Middle Eastern perfumes and other valuables.
Rial denied involvement in the Castelar burglary but admitted being present during the Villa Adelina break-in.
She also claimed she refused to drive the gang to another house in Martínez that they had picked out to burgle the following day.
Following the conviction, Rial’s legal team applied for her release on parole.
Lawyer Alejandro Cipolla told local media: “She qualifies for release on parole because she has already served the eight months, a little more in fact, required by law when someone receives an effective three-year prison sentence.”
In the meantime, the influencer, whose father is journalist and TV presenter Jorge Rial, remains under house arrest with an electronic ankle tag and is banned from using social media.
Cipolla added: “From what she’s been telling me, the only thing she wants is for all of this to be over so she can be reunited with her son, who is in Córdoba.
“We now have to begin the necessary legal proceedings to restore that relationship.”
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