Eighty-year-old Doris Thompson has made a long career of petty theft and burglarizing medical buildings.<\/p>\n
And even though she was sentenced to three years in state prison for her latest crime this week, officials aren\u2019t sure that\u2019s enough to stop Thompson\u2019s escapades when she is released.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe likes to burglarize medical suites for some reason. That\u2019s her niche,\u201d said Paulette Paccione, the Los Angeles County deputy district attorney who prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Thompson, who has a rap sheet dating to 1955 and has landed in state prison nine times, pleaded guilty to a commercial burglary she committed in December, when she hid in the restroom of the Children\u2019s Medical Group office in Torrance and waited until employees left for the day. <\/p>\n
A security camera caught Thompson prying open drawers with a chisel and screwdriver, Paccione said.<\/p>\n
She\u00a0took $400 in cash and checks, stamps totaling $25, a plastic urine container and an audiogram device, used to test hearing impaired children, valued at $1,000, said Sgt. Jeremiah Hart, of the Torrance Police Department. <\/p>\n
This is not the first time Thompson targeted the Torrance medical building, Hart said. In 2005 and 2006, she burglarized other medical offices in the complex while wearing a wig, he said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
During the investigation of the December burglary, a Torrance detective recognized the woman in the surveillance camera from a crime bulletin put up by Beverly Hills police a few years earlier for a similar crime, Hart said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s her MO,\u201d Paccione said. \u201cWhat she does is she goes in with her little burglar bag. She takes cash, stamps, whatever she can find.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paccione said Thompson, who has used 25 aliases, is a unique woman. \u201cYou usually don\u2019t get 80-year-old female burglars.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said that Thompson told the judge in court that she probably deserved more time in prison than the three-year sentence.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think this will stop her from doing this again,\u201d Paccione said. \u201cShe\u2019s not really apologetic about it. This is her thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
–My-Thuan Tran
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