Madison Police Say “Prolific Shoplifter” Arrested With $650 Worth Of Clothes

Madison police say a woman they call a “prolific shoplifter” was carrying an armload of clothes to a van outside East Towne Mall when she was arrested.  Fifty-two-year-old Marilyn P. Simmons was taken into custody at about 6:00 P-M Monday.  The stolen clothes were worth about 650-dollars.  Police arrested Simmons on a tentative charge of felony retail theft.  The driver of the van, 54-year-old Robert L. Baker, has been banned from the mall, so he was cited for trespassing.