A woman considered one of Virginia’s most arrested women is back behind bars facing nearly two dozen new charges.
Chelsea Steiniger, 31, currently faces a total of 21 charges in Buckingham County Circuit Court ranging from identity theft to drug possession.
She was just in Albemarle County General District Court in October on a different set of charges.
The Daily Progress described her as being “jovial”, even while standing in the court shackled by handcuffs and leg irons, as the judge suspended several sentences but imposed a 30-day sentence on a charge of driving under the influence.
The paper says a state database shows Steiniger has 63 arrests.
One of her more notable recent convictions involved stealing a scooter belonging to a nurse who was working at the University of Virginia Medical Center. She received a suspended sentence in that case but was ordered to pay restitution to the nurse within a year.
One of her past crimes sent an innocent man to jail for two years.
She allegedly made up false rape allegations against a grocery store manager in 2012. The man was freed in 2015 after the defense convinced the court that she made the story up to anger a boyfriend, the paper reported.
She has never faced prosecution in that case.
Steiniger is being held in the Piedmont Regional Jail on the latest charges. She is due back in court in January
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Chelsea Steiniger, 31, currently faces a total of 21 charges in Buckingham County Circuit Court ranging from identity theft to drug possession.
She was just in Albemarle County General District Court in October on a different set of charges.
The Daily Progress described her as being “jovial”, even while standing in the court shackled by handcuffs and leg irons, as the judge suspended several sentences but imposed a 30-day sentence on a charge of driving under the influence.
The paper says a state database shows Steiniger has 63 arrests.
One of her more notable recent convictions involved stealing a scooter belonging to a nurse who was working at the University of Virginia Medical Center. She received a suspended sentence in that case but was ordered to pay restitution to the nurse within a year.
One of her past crimes sent an innocent man to jail for two years.
She allegedly made up false rape allegations against a grocery store manager in 2012. The man was freed in 2015 after the defense convinced the court that she made the story up to anger a boyfriend, the paper reported.
She has never faced prosecution in that case.
Steiniger is being held in the Piedmont Regional Jail on the latest charges. She is due back in court in January
Virginia Woman Who Has Been Arrested 63 Times Shrugs Off Judge’s 30-Day Jail Sentence
Chelsea Steiniger has been arrested 63 times in Virginia but has faced very limited sentences for her crimes.
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