Timothy Akers should be a familiar face for law enforcement – the 40-year-old man has been arrested 101 times, according to Cincinnati police.

Investigators hope to make his 102nd arrest soon, said Detective Tamar Skelly with Crime Stoppers.

Akers, a parole violator whose last known address was Cheviot, remains at large on April 2 charges of misuse of a credit card and receiving stolen property, Hamilton County court records show.

Cincinnati police accuse him of using an 81-year-old woman’s credit card March 18 to make several purchases at the CVS Pharmacy on Seventh Street downtown. The credit card was taken during a recent burglary offense, records state.

Akers served about 3½ years in a state prison in London, Ohio, after he was convicted of an April 2005 robbery offense at a Rally’s Hamburgers in Hamilton County during which he threatened a female clerk, records show.

When he was released from prison in March 2008, he was put on parole for three years, said JoEllen Culp, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehbalitation and Correction in Columbus.

Prison records show Akers has been in and out of Ohio prisons and on parole at various times over the past 21 years for several offenses out of Hamilton County:

• May 1988 after he was convicted of theft. He served six months and was released on Aug. 12, 1988.

• November 1997 on a domestic violence charge in violation of a protection order. He was sentenced to nine months in prison and released in July 1998.

• December 2001 for assault and harassment by an inmate. He was given a one year sentence and released in Aug. 9, 2002.

• March 2003 for vandalism. He was released in October 2003.

• Akers also has been in and out of the Hamilton County jail at least 36 times since 1997, said Steve Barnett, spokesman for the county sheriff’s office.

Some of the more recent charges are for offenses such as grand theft auto, disorderly conduct, intoxication, obstruction of official business and possessing drug paraphernalia.

Akers has not been convicted on all of the various crimes he has been charged with over the years, Barnett pointed out.

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