https://nypost.com/2022/10/14/nyc-woman-who-allegedly-pickpocketed-dead-man-freed-without-bail/
oct 14 2022 A career criminal with 40 prior arrests who allegedly pickpocketed a dead man in Manhattan was freed without bail at her arraignment Friday — as sources said she tried to use the victim’s stolen cash but couldn’t because it was covered in blood.
Repeat offender Geniece Draper, 40, stayed mum as she faced charges of both grand and petit larceny for allegedly snatching the wallet of a man who was crushed by a truck last week.
“This defendant appeared on video taking money out of a dead man’s pocket,” a prosecutor said at the arraignment hearing.
As she left Manhattan Criminal Court on supervised release, the brazen Draper denied she did anything wrong and insisted to The Post that she was only snatching back cash that belonged to her from the man, who was also homeless and identified as Jerome Smith, 62.
Draper said she had dated Smith before he swiped $120 from her at an ATM, infuriating her.
“It was only $40. I knew him from the area but I didn’t know him personally,” she said, according to a Manhattan criminal complaint that appears to contradict her claim that she’d dated Smith.
