A Butler woman — who already has two dozen felony convictions — is accused of scamming an elderly man out of thousands of dollars last month.

Butler police Monday arrested Ricki Lee Double on a felony theft charge. She remains in the Butler County Prison on $15,000 bail.

Police began investigating the case Oct. 20 when Alison Niederlander, office manager at the Butler YWCA, reported the suspected theft. The 79-year-old victim lives at the facility on West Cunningham Street, police said.

Niederlander told police that she had gotten a telephone call telling her that Double was “ripping off” the victim, court documents said.

The man’s daughter was notified, and she checked his credit card account, which turned up numerous suspicious cash advances.

Police spoke to the victim, who told investigators that he met Double at a Butler drug store. He said she later talked him into giving her money from his credit card account.

“He said that she kept coming back for more,” according to a police affidavit, “and at times he would give her the card and she would take the money out herself.”

The man acknowledged he did not know how much the suspect had taken.

Police inspected the victim’s account statement which linked Double to 17 unauthorized transactions totaling $5,770 between Oct. 9 and 20, documents said.

Her preliminary hearing is set for 1:15 p.m. Monday before District Judge Pete Shaffer.

Double is no stranger to police departments in the county. Her criminal record is riddled with convictions, including felonies for forgery, theft and drug possession.

Double currently is awaiting trial in four other criminal cases.

State police in one of those pending cases charged her with targeting an 84-year-old Butler Township woman earlier this year.

She is accused of stealing two credit cards from the woman’s home in June and using them to buy nearly $2,400 in merchandise. She later confessed to the crime, police said, admitting she used the credit cards to buy gift cards and merchandise.

“She then took the gift cards to a pawnshop to sell for cash to support her drug habit,” according to a police affidavit.