By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

While other women her age are enjoying retirement and maybe spending their time knitting, 82-year-old Doris Thompson’s life-long career as a burglar shows no sign of abating.

Los Angeles County's oldest burglar was detained at an El Segundo, California hotel Saturday, suspected of stealing from a doctor's office. She's being held on $80,000 bail.

Torrance Police Sgt. Robert Watt says Thompson, who has been known under at least 25 different names, has targeted medical facilities in the past.

Her M.O. would be to hide in the office until closing time and then hunt out the keys to the cash box.

“What she does is she goes in with her little burglar bag. She takes cash, stamps, whatever she can find,” L.A. County Deputy Dist. Atty. Paulette Paccione said.

Watt confirmed that officials are submitting evidence connected to eight recent burglaries to the D.A.’s office on Tuesday.

Thompson’s 20-page rap sheet dates back to 1955 and she’s been sent to jail nine times in the last 29 years, all for burglary.