This has got to be one of the more interesting theft stories to reach the news in a while. Why, you ask? How about it deals with a stolen mink coat? Not enough? How about the fact that the thief kept the coat hidden for 3 days? Still not enough? How about that the coat was hidden inside her underwear – while she was being interviewed at the police station!

How can that be? Those must have been some plus-sized panties. Take a look at the photo? Holy cow!

After the coat was found, 46-year-old Stephanie Moreland pleaded guilty this week to stealing a mink coat and keeping it stashed in her underwear for three days while cops questioned her about the theft.

She was arrested on New Year's Eve after an employee at Alaskan Fur Company I Bloomington, Minnesota, reported that she'd swiped a $6,500 mink coat.

Cops who searched her car found the coat's hanger - but no fur - and hauled her into jail on suspicion of theft.

Detectives grilled Moreland for three days over the New Year's holiday, giving her pat down and metal detector tests, but she insisted she had already sold the coat, cops said.

After investigators threatened to throw her in a Hennipan County Jail, Moreland hiked up her dress and pulled the mink coat from her underwear.

Cops were impressed with her craftiness.

"She had modified her underwear," Bloomington Police Commander Mark Stehlik said. "She actually cut the rear of the underwear out so that from the back it appeared she was not wearing underwear and then stuffed it down the front."