An Illinois woman faces more legal troubles for a rash of retail store fires allegedly meant to distract workers from her shoplifting.

Heather “Six” Weeden, 46, of Ford Heights and Alton, was charged Wednesday in connection with fires set at the Highland Meijer on Jan. 10.

Her co-defendant, Jerry L. Pierson, 35, of Chicago Heights, was charged last month.

Prosecutors allege she set a trio of fires in different parts of the store as she and Pierson stole a TV, sound bar speaker and Shark vacuum they later tried to resell.

Weeden was charged with arson, organized theft and theft, according to Lake Superior Court records. Her bond is set at $4,500 cash surety.

She denied involvement in a police interview, admitting it was her in security video, but blaming her accomplice, “Cap,” for the fires, charges show.

Weeden is also charged in Cook County with setting fires inside a Lansing Walmart on Jan. 7. She is charged with aggravated arson and retail theft there, with a $85,000 cash bond set. Authorities accused her of stealing about $500 in merchandise, but causing $4.5 million in damages to the store, which was closed for three weeks, prosecutors said.

Weeden was convicted of murder and vehicular hijacking in 1998 after she pleaded guilty to a carjacking where she lured a man, Michael Ufert, to a location in Madison County, Illinois, where he was fatally shot, according to the Illinois Appellate Court. She was released from parole in 2020, authorities said. Weeden also had convictions for forgery and aggravated battery to a police officer.

The Chicago Tribune’s William Lee contributed.