Posted on 02/22/2022 3:55:49 PM PST by thegagline
A self-described “professional booster” with 96 arrests on her record was nabbed again this week for allegedly stealing from an Upper East Side Target — and then released at her arraignment on Thursday, The Post has learned.
Michelle Mckelley, 42, allegedly boasted about her “hustle” at the store on Third Avenue near East 70th Street, telling cops, “I haven’t got caught in a long time,” after her latest bust Wednesday, prosecutors said in Manhattan Criminal Court.
“I’m a professional booster. Y’all are stopping my hustle,” the serial shoplifter allegedly told officers.
Speaking to The Post after her hearing, Mckelley unabashedly described how she “professionally obscures” items — including the red shirt she wore in court.
“I have to get a new outfit … so I have to go work,” Mckelley said when asked if she’d continue.
“I don’t call it stealing, I call it professional boosting,” she added matter-of-factly.
Police sources said Mckelley has 96 prior arrests, mostly for petit larceny, a misdemeanor that is not eligible for monetary bail under state law. She has at least four other open cases, one for robbery, a felony, and three for misdemeanors.
She was out on supervised release in another petit larceny at the time of the bust — and also had seven open bench warrants, prosecutors said.
The brazen “booster” has one felony conviction, two misdemeanor convictions and has failed to show up to court at least 27 times.
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She has a better beard than alot of guys I know.
With a 5 o’clock shadow like that, that she is a he.
She needs the cops to give her a tune up.
We are incompatible.
Yes. And an early adopter reparations self-enabler.
That and the privilege card she carries whenever she leaves home.
When she defies the police she whips out a cascading set of plastic card holders for all this and they let her go.
Yep, we have learned that shoplifting and looting are just forms of reparations for some.
Yah, your probably right.
Holding people to account for their actions is racist.
I should apologize on national TV and publicly humiliate myself by carrying a sign that says I am a racist in Time Square.
And of course I will never be forgiven and forever be labeled a racist.
Once judged a racist, forever a racist.
No penance will ever expunge the sin.
Maybe steal a shaving kit next time
Surprise, surprise, surprise...
How much time has it spent in jail???? Not much, I’ll bet!!!!
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