Crime & Safety

PD: Woman in Mobility Scooter Stole $182 Worth of Goods

Middletown Police say the 48-year-old was convicted of severe neglect of her 4-year-old daughter in 2012, when the girl was found in deplorable conditions at an East Main Street apartment.

The following police reports come from the Middletown Police public information officer. Individuals named here reflect charges filed, never a conviction.

A woman who's been convicted of theft and neglecting her 4-year-old daughter shoplifted nearly $200 worth of merchandise while driving a motorized scooter around a city grocery store, according to Middletown Police.

On Sept. 27 at about 4 p.m., Ivy D. Maroney, 48, of South Main Street was at Stop & Shop on East Main Street when a store employee saw her put several items into reusable shopping bags while riding a motorized scooter, according to the report. 

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She admitted to police she took the items, valued at $182.04, without purchasing them and left the store.

Maroney was charged with sixth-degree larceny. 

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In July 2012, Maroney was accused of letting a 4-year-old child live in deplorable conditions, according to a Middletown Press article, which added she is paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair.

According to the Press, the child was in dirty clothing and was unbathed, while the apartment on East Main Street smelled of rotten food, black mold was found on a mattress and was filled dirty clothes, stained walls and littered cigarette butts. That same year, she was charged after allegedly stealing around $120 in items from Rite Aid and goods from Middlesex Hospital before that, the Press reports.

Her record includes convictions for fourth-degree larceny in 2009 in a Meriden case, failure to appear and first-degree criminal trespass in 2012 in Wallingford case, and a Middletown risk of injury to a child earlier this year, according to the Connecticut Judicial System website.

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