Syracuse woman arrested after stealing purse at Kelly Clarkson concert

By The Dispatch Staff

Marguarette Michel

VERONA A Syracuse woman is charged with grand larceny after stealing a purse at a Kelly Clarkson concert at Turning Stone Casino Thursday.

Oneida County Sheriffs deputies arrested 39-year-old Marguarette Michel, of Syracuse, for grand larceny after Oneida Indian Nation Police discovered she had stolen a purse at the Events Center.

Investigators say Michel was at the Kelly Clarkson concert Thursday when she noticed a purse under a chair in the row in front of her. She allegedly took the purse and left the Event Center. Police say she then went to another area of the casino where she took money and credit cards out of the purse and threw the rest away.

Michel did not gamble with any of the money stolen from the purse, although she planned on doing so, investigators say. After returning to her seat at the concert, the victim mentioned her purse was missing so Michel left the concert and, according to her, went home to Syracuse, police say.

She was arraigned Friday in New York Mills Village Court in front of Justice Robert Glenn and held at the Oneida County Correctional Facility in lieu of $20,000 bail.

Both the Oneida Indian Nation Police and Oneida County Sheriffs deputies investigated the crime.