Career shoplifters self-proclaimed"professional boosters"after some of their previous busts were talked about, at least 99 I was arrested for the second time. This week, police said Thursday.
Michelle McKelly, 42, was arrested around 8 pm. Police said Wednesday at Duane Reade on Third Avenue on East 106th Street in East Harlem.
McKelly was caught in a revolving door after his front bust and was released, but was observed to pack items in a bag at the store and try to leave without paying. Said the policeman.
McKelly refused when a security guard in her store ordered her to remove her stolen goods, police said.
According to police, she subsequently repeatedly hit the store guards with her arm in her shopping cart. A police spokesman said he didn't know what the item was.
McKelly was charged with robbery and petit theft Attempts, police say, criminal possession of weapons. She had not been charged late in the afternoon.
Her last bust came onMaywhen she was charged with 10 little Larseny from Rite Aid on Second Avenue and East 96 Street, police said. ..
A judge in the Manhattan Criminal Court released McKelly after pleading guilty to one theft and three chaotic acts. Her career shoplifter was told she had to complete five sessions of the program for recidivists. Otherwise she is at risk of being sentenced to 90 sentences. Judge Le Marie Maldonado Cruz said.
The policeman at the time said that the bust was McKelly. On the 108th, officials said Thursday's bust was just her 99th, but did not explain the contradiction.
She was also arrested inFebruary— and after being released at her hearing, she bragged about her "busy".
McKelly was allegedly stolen from a target on Third Avenue near East 70th Street in February, and prosecutors told police that "I haven't been caught for a long time," the prosecutor told the then-Manhattan Criminal Court. rice field.
"I'm a professional Amplifier. Everyone has stopped my hustle and bustle, "she is said to have told officers.
After the hearing, McKelly spoke to the post and explained how she "professionally obscures" the item.
"I have to wear new clothes ... so I have to go to work," McKelly said at the time when she was asked if she would continue.
After her arrest, Judge Rachel Pauly asked the prosecutor after the prosecutor demanded her release under her supervision.
McKelly's elected lawyer said she was in compliance with her supervised release until around December 1, when her client became homeless, and she upheld this request.
"I'm not sure she'll obey," Pauly said, citing 27 failures that McKelly didn't appear in court.
However, the judge still agreed to release McKelly under the supervision of the Alternative Sentence and Employment Services Center (CASES). She warned McKelly not to miss one promise, not to be arrested, and to attend the next hearing.
It was not clear if the February accusation was still ruling.
A Manhattan police officer said he was fed up with the justice of revolving door personnel.
"They are ridiculing the system," sources said.
"This is ridiculous," he said. "Pray Alvin Bragg, Republicans not to be governor. His ass is grass. Why doesn't anyone ask Hochul about this? Do you think this is" OK, Governor "? ??
