Arlington Heights woman charged in Michigan Avenue looting

An Arlington Heights woman was charged Friday in connection with the rash of looting that occurred earlier this month on Chicago's Magnificent Mile.

Micaela Kimbrough, 31, of the 700 block of East Golf Road, faces three felony charges of burglary, looting by an individual and theft. A Cook County judge Friday set bail at $10,000. She must post $1,000 to be released.

Authorities said Kimbrough was arrested just after 3 p.m. Wednesday on the 2400 block of West North Avenue as she tried to sell a stolen jacket. They said the coat came from Canada Goose Chicago at 800 N. Michigan Ave., which was looted overnight Aug. 9-10.

Assistant Cook County State's Attorney Lorraine Scaduto said during the bond hearing Friday that a store employee found the jacket for sale on Facebook Marketplace, and the tags on the jacket later tracked back to that store.

Scaduto said store surveillance showed Kimbrough entering the store wearing a mask but leaving without a mask and the jacket in hand.

Undercover Chicago police detectives arranged to meet her to purchase the jacket, authorities said. Prosecutors said the online listing and a money-sharing app on the listing were also traced to her.

She told police she purchased the jacket from someone at 33rd Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway, but it did not fit the person for whom she bought it, Scaduto said.

Kimbrough's public defender said she has been working as an Aldi supervisor for eight years and has no criminal background.

As a condition of her bail, Judge Arthur Wesley Willis ordered her to be on curfew from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m.

"You've been working steadily at Aldi as a supervisor for eight years, so I have no idea why you would be caught up in this in any way, shape or form," Willis said.

Kimbrough is due in court again Sept. 1 on the felony charges and Sept. 2 for a bankruptcy case.