The woman, whom Chicago police and the Cook County state's attorney's office identified as Ella Orko, 86, of Chicago, has been arrested more than 60 times in her life and has several aliases. Many of the arrests were theft-related, and police said the woman has 13 convictions.Bond set at $10,000, prosecutors recommend she be placed on an electronic monitoring device
"Orko, who has been arrested 61 times including Sunday, was arrested for the first time in 1956 in Chicago for petty larceny and again in 1958 for grand larceny, according to the lieutenant.
“She’s a career shoplifter,’’ the lieutenant said.
Police said she has 13 convictions shoplifting, but Simonton, citing court records, could confirm only five, four in Illinois and one in Wisconsin. She said Okro's last conviction -- for retail theft in 2006 -- resulted in prison time before she was paroled in 2007."
