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Chicago Cops: 86-Yr Old Woman Arrested 61st Time for Shoplifting | Print |  E-mail
Friday, 07 August 2009

 

 

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Authorities said an 86-year-old woman charged with shoplifting wrinkle cream and other items from a Chicago grocery store has been arrested 61 times since 1956.

Ella Orko was being held on $10,000 bail after her arrest Sunday afternoon on the city's North Side after she allegedly stuffed $252 worth of groceries into her pants — including cosmetics, salmon, batteries and instant coffee.

She was charged with felony shoplifting.

Police said Orko has gone by as many as 20 aliases in the past.

Court records indicate that she has now been arrested 61 times and has 13 convictions for shoplifting.

She was caught the first time in 1956 in Chicago for petty larceny and again in 1958 for grand larceny.

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88pdx: Rap sheet goes back over half a century?!! Whoa!!
Obsessive-compulsive thief!
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August 07, 2009
ID2422: ...
Imagine how many tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars this innocent ole' grandma as swiped during the last five decades.

Smuggling salmon in your pants... There's just too many jokes to be told on that one.
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August 07, 2009
88pdx: ID2422: They'll never get the smell out of that salmon!
Thinking things like that? I like the way you think!!
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August 08, 2009
Bull: ...
61 times and 13 convictions = 47 dismissals?
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August 08, 2009
88pdx: Don't most women her age play bingo and enjoy church activities?
53 years of crime! Once a bad apple, always a bad apple. She really needs to take up quilting or knitting or something else legal and productive. But hell, why start now?

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August 08, 2009
drthugmaster: ...
Im sure her pants smell enough like fish already. There was no nneed for the salmon. smilies/cheesy.gif and Im pretty sure that the anti wrinkle cream isnt working smilies/cool.gif
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August 09, 2009
88pdx: ...
My husband thought she was a MAN! And he's a doctor, so he's seen lots of weird things.
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August 10, 2009
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