Definitely an Un-Barney Fife moment...

It’s not an unusual story: someone tires of big city crime, and wants to move to a small town. Friends say she’s got some strange idea she’s a character in the Andy Griffith Show, looking for Mayberry - why, small towns have crime, too. Fiddlesticks, she says, and she moves. And gets robbed. Bonus: she was a character from the Andy Griffith Show. And the town? Mayberry:

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. – The actress who played Thelma Lou on "The Andy Griffith Show" was robbed in the town that inspired the show's idyllic Mayberry setting, after moving to the area to avoid big city crime.

Betty Lou Lynn had her wallet stolen at a shopping center in Mount Airy, the birthplace of Andy Griffith. The Mount Airy News reports that police arrested Shirley Walter Guynn of Cana, Va. He's being held in Surry County Jail on a $10,000 bond. It was not immediately clear Thursday if he has a lawyer.

In an earlier interview with the newspaper, the 83-year-old Lynn said she moved to Mount Airy after being robbed three times in Los Angeles. In the TV series, Thelma Lou was the girlfriend of Deputy Barney Fife, played by Don Knotts.