NY POST: Catty 'rob' gal caged (Cat Lady robbery suspect picked up during SoHo heist)

NY Post ^ | August 26, 2010 | LARRY CELONA

[a fool in paradise]

It wasn't a purr-fect crime after all.

Sources said last night that cops had caged the "Cat Lady," the serial stick-up artist who dons clever disguises -- including a cat mask -- to rob high-end boutiques around the city.

The suspect was identified as Shanna Spalding, 28, of Queens, who sings with a death-metal band called Divine Infamy under her stage name, Purgatory.

The burqa-clad suspect was picked up in SoHo after bursting into a Greene Street boutique with a gun and demanding cash, sources said.

...Cops said they had noticed her prior to the heist, and followed her to the store, suspecting she was the mysterious robber, who had been known before to disguise herself in a burqa...

She was charged with two Manhattan heists, including the one last night, and is a suspect in the others.

Cops had plastered neighborhoods she prowled with unusual wanted posters featuring a sketch of a woman in a cat mask.

[a fool in paradise]

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The suspect was identified as Shanna Spalding, 28, of Queens, who sings with a death-metal band called Divine Infamy under her stage name, Purgatory...

Cops had plastered neighborhoods she prowled with unusual wanted posters featuring a sketch of a woman in a cat mask.

[a fool in paradise]

It wasn't a purr-fect crime after all.

[sinanju]

She’s purty.

She’ll get a wrist-slap, then a record contract.

Maybe a rich boyfriend. Are there male jailhouse groupies?

[Boogieman]

Not that I’m a fan of the genre, but how in the heck can a Death Metal band have a chick singer? Seems like they aught to be laughed out of the scene.

[JimRed]

...Cops said they had noticed her prior to the heist, and followed her to the store, suspecting she was the mysterious robber, who had been known before to disguise herself in a burqa...

She'll get off- some lib judge will call that profiling and throw out the evidence...

[Frantzie]

I could see a Death or Speed Metal band having a hot chick singer but this girl “ain’t” hot.

What’s her name as Catwoman was smoking hot.

[a fool in paradise]

Ertha Kitt?

[a fool in paradise]

Suprising Rock and Roll PING

[Blood of Tyrants]

Julie Neumar was THE Cat Woman. Although Hallie Berry looked super hot in her outfit, too.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Not unless she can rob from the grave. Ertha Kitt died Christmas Day 2008.

[massgopguy]

Don’t forget Lee Merriweather.

[Bean Counter]

Not to be confused with Jocelyn Wildestein, the OTHER "Cat Woman"...