The world’s dumbest Criminal. Busted 397 times for stealing

There’s this popular African adage that says ‘When you catch a thief,he/she will tell you-‘this is my first time’. What then can anyone tell this Chicago mum who has been arrested 397 times. Each time she came out of jail, she vows to turn her life around only to do the same thing that took her to jail all over again.

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Chicago woman who vowed to change her life of crime arrested for the 397th time
Shermain Miles, 52, said she was tired of her life behind bars — but one month later, she was collared again.
A Chicago woman who vowed to turn her life around after her 396th arrest was collared again last week — just one month after she was released from a one-year stint in jail for attacking a city alderman.
Shermain Miles, 52, allegedly swiped a 63-year-old man’s keys before police found her nearby drinking and “engaging in a physical altercation with a male companion” on Dec. 18, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Miles was booked on several charges that include misdemeanor battery, theft and drinking in public, officials said.

The woman told the newspaper last month that she was tired of spending time behind bars and was aiming to turn her life around.

Miles, who was convicted of assaulting Ald. James Cappleman of the city’s 46th Ward in 2012, claimed she was going to quit drugs and alcohol — the two things she blamed for causing most of her problems with the law.
She said she was going to avoid the places where she may be tempted to fall back on her old ways

“I’m just not going back around there,” she told the paper after her release from the Illinois Department of Corrections on Nov. 18.
“I can love (my friends) from a distance,” she said. “Anybody that’s drugging, I can’t be around.”
But it was only a couple of weeks later that Miles, who was staying at a residential home for ex-inmates, began visiting her old haunts, CBS News reported.
When told of her recent arrest, Cappleman told the Chicago Sun-Times only: “It’s sad.”
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