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Chicago woman arrested 396 times since 1978



A Chicago woman has been arrested at least 396 times since 1978, including for an alleged attack on an alderman, according to reports.


Shermain Miles, 51, has been charged 92 times for theft, on 65 occasions for disorderly conduct, 59 counts for prostitution-related crimes and five times for robbery or attempted robbery as reported by the Chicago Sun-Times. Miles has used at least 83 aliases.


To the relief of many in the city she is now imprisoned in a correctional center in Lincoln, Illinois. She was arrested last year after allegedly chasing down Chicago Alderman James Cappleman.




Serial offender: Shermain Miles has amassed nearly 400 arrests since 1978











The 51-year-old has terrorized her neighborhood since 1978. She reportedly buys liquor from this store in Chicago's North Side

Following that arrest she was jailed for a possible parole violation for a 2010 conviction for robbing Mujo Cesic, a 75-year-old Bosnian immigrant, at knife point.

Miles is due in front of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board on Tuesday.



Miles has used at least 83 different aliases

Merchants and residents on Chicago's North Side are very familiar with Miles.


One florist called police about her 25 times last summer.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times she is also extremely well-known to Chicago Police Officer Tom Rolon, who has seen her inebriated, half-naked, swearing and, on one occasion, lunging at a woman with a dinner fork.

The paper reports that Miles has been in and out of jail and mental health institutions but that nothing has helped the woman or the community she regularly harasses.


Officer Rolon said that Miles is a master at working the system, who fakes seizures, gets judges to delay cases and has proceedings dismissed, often by failing to turn up to court.

According to the Cook County state's attorney's office Miles has had 73 convictions in total.

Mujo Cesic, her victim in the knife robbery and a fireman in his native Bosnia, believes she should 'never be released.'


Miles has told psychologists she believes people are trying to kill and steal from her. She declined an interview with the Sun-Times but described her renewed faith in a letter to the paper.


The woman reportedly suffered abuse by her mother as a child. 'We were all abused by my mom, but Shermain was abused more than any of us,' one of Miles' two sisters told the Sun-Times.


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'It's the root cause of all her problems,' she added.


The woman added they never knew their father and their mother died in 1994.


The children were taken into care but Shermain reportedly couldn't adjust to foster care and was living on the streets by the age of 14.




Miles is currently in the Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln, Illinois. Her case will be heard by the review board on Tuesday

She had a child as a teenager and according to her sister the adult daughter now lives in Minnesota.

Cappleman, who was attacked by Miles last summer after she slapped two other people, said that the woman needs a 'highly structured' plan in place on her release from the Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln.'For the sake of Ms. Miles and the community, it's time to take the next step to ensure the community is no longer terrorized by her behavior,' Cappleman wrote in a letter to the Prisoner Review Board in February.

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