76 year old woman arrested 73 times in her life

A 76-year-old woman who gave her address as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. has been arrested for the 73rd time in almost four decades, this time on charges of stealing a police decoy wallet in a supermarket and stuffing it in her bra.

The woman, who prosecutors say has used 36 aliases, was indicted Tuesday as Katherine Kelly in Manhattan Criminal Court in connection with the wallet. Prosecutors reported the indictment but didn't disclose the charges.

A criminal complaint filed earlier in this case charged Kelly with grand larceny and attempted grand larceny. It said she took a wallet, left by police as bait, from a shopping cart in a supermarket a few blocks north of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on Oct. 15. It said an officer recovered the wallet from Kelly's "bra area."

Before Kelly was accused of taking the wallet, the complaint says, undercover police saw her trying to steal from several people inside the supermarket by putting her hand inside their bags. Judge Barry Kamins scheduled a Nov. 17 arraignment on the indictment.

Kelly's lawyer, James Neilson, said Tuesday his client has not been convicted in this case and expects due process. He acknowledged his client has a rap sheet but wouldn't comment on it. More.

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