The woman robbed the victim of an accident in Manhattan: she has already been arrested 40 times and each time released

A woman with 40 previous arrests who stole the wallet from a dead Manhattan crash victim has yet again been released without bail. The edition told in more detail New York Post.

She tried to use the victim's stolen money, but she couldn't because it was covered in blood.

Janice Draper, 40, is charged with both grand larceny and petty theft for stealing the wallet of a man who was hit by a car.

“She took money out of a dead man’s pocket,” the prosecutor said at the prosecution hearing.

When the detainee left the Manhattan criminal court under supervision, Draper denied that she had done anything wrong and insisted that she only took money that belonged to her from a man who was homeless and identified as 62-year-old Jerome Smith.

“He robbed me first,” Draper assured. And he died after that.

Draper said she dated Smith before he stole $120 from her at an ATM, which infuriated her.

“I could have killed him. He stole $120 from me,” she said. “I knew this guy. I had a date with him."

Janice said she did not take any of Smith's credit cards and does not consider what she did to be theft because it was originally her money.

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“I didn’t steal anything,” she said.

According to a police source, Draper explained to the police that she tried to use the money from his wallet, but the cashier did not accept it because it was covered in blood.

Law enforcement sources said that Janice Draper has a long criminal record that began in 2007. During this time, she had an arrest for grand theft.

Most of her arrests are related to petty theft, drugs and prostitution, and the last arrest before the robbery of the dead occurred just two days earlier.

“The accused has two criminal convictions, 42 misdemeanors and 16 absenteeism,” the prosecutor said.

Police said Smith was hit by a tractor-trailer and pulled near a construction site as he crossed Eighth Avenue at West 44th Street on October 6.

It is alleged that Draper was later caught on surveillance video footage of her reaching into the victim's pocket and taking his wallet.

Without a wallet, the cops relied on dental records and fingerprints to identify Smith, according to sources.

Transportation officers arrested Draper on October 13 after they recognized her at a subway station, according to police.

Police sources said she had what appeared to be a crack pipe in her jacket at the time of her arrest.

Suspects charged with petty and grand theft cannot be released on bail under New York's sweeping 2019 law.