The claws are out in a Brooklyn case involving a missing kitten.
A Brooklyn woman accused of taking a beloved cat from a Park Slope bodega was arraigned on petty larceny charges, then angrily maintained Wednesday that she is an “animal lover” who was wrongfully arrested.
“I’m going to sue them for accusing me of stealing,” Mary Sierra told The Post after she was released on her own recognizance.
“I’m an animal lover. I got three rescue dogs,” she said. “I wasn’t supposed to go to jail yesterday for this s—t. I went to jail! They locked me up, they locked me up for this s—t. I did not steal the f—ing cat.”
The three-month-old kitten was taken from 8th St. Mini Mart in Park Slope on Thursday. Surveillance footage showed two people walking away with the animal.
Although Sierra denied guilt, she acknowledged to The Post that she had taken the kitten.
“That store wasn’t open at 7 a.m. I saw the cat four houses away and picked up the cat and I took him home with me,” she said.
Neighbors organized a search for Jabal. Sierra eventually decided to return the kitten to the store, but instead had her stepson bring the cat to the 78th Precinct stationhouse on Tuesday.
Police took Sierra into custody, and she was charged and arraigned later that day on allegations of petty larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and “companion animal stealing,” according to a criminal complaint.
She was released without bail.
Jabal’s owner, Imad “Jimmy” Innab, was overjoyed to have the kitten safely back.
Sierra, however, insists she is being railroaded by the case.
“It’s embarrassing, because everybody knows I didn’t steal the f—ing cat,” she told The Post.
