A man was caught by security staff trying to steal a pair of shoes from Zara in Sliema on Saturday.
Kojic Milorad, 45, was heading out of the shop with the footwear inside his computer bag when he was stopped. The police were called and he was arrested.
Mr Milorad pleaded guilty to attempted theft on his arraignment yesterday.
The accused, from Serbia, told Magistrate Francesco Depasquale he had been living in Malta for 20 years.
He was conditionally discharged for two years.