Halle Berry — that jewel thief you were planning to play just struck again

Actress Halle Berry is reportedly planning to star in a film called Who Is Doris Payne?. But plenty of police officers already know the answer to that question — including the ones who just busted her for allegedly swiping a Burberry coat from a Saks Fifth Avenue in Costa Mesa, California.

Indeed, Payne, who's 79, has a long and storied career as a scofflaw in localities across the country — including here in Colorado, where she spent more time in stir than she did stealing expensive diamond rings.

According to an entertaining 2008 Los Angeles Times article penned by DeeDee Correll, "the beginning of the end" of Payne's criminal career took place in Denver — although that prediction has proven a bit premature.

Circa the late '90s, Correll writes, Payne stole a five-carat diamond ring from a local Neiman Marcus. Several months later, she was recognized in a mall in Pennsylvania, leading to her arrest. In 1999, she was convicted in Colorado and given a twelve-year sentence.

Payne subsequently spent two years in a Nevada jail before being shipped back to Colorado to complete her term here. When the Times article was published, she was still in prison and swearing that she was reformed. Her son was confident she meant it, telling Correll, "She's not going to steal anymore."

Didn't quite work out that way, did it?

Halle Berry — that jewel thief you were planning to play just struck again