‘Man of Steal’ speaks: thief with 46 arrests exploited city’s fears — and jail might save his life

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‘Man of Steal’ speaks: thief with 46 arrests exploited city’s fears — and jail might save his life
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Isaac Rodriguez, who was busted for shoplifting 46 times in 2021, says he exploited his Queens neighborhood’s fears, lax store security and soft-on crime prosecutors.

with a staggering 46 arrests says he exploited his Queens neighborhood’s fears, lax store security and soft-on crime prosecutors, during an exclusive jailhouse interview with The Post.

“Stealing was the only way I knew to get money fast to tend to my habit,” said Rodriguez, whose only “real job” was selling merch at the U.S. Open in Queens.Nearly four dozen arrests and trips through Gotham’s revolving-door justice system did nothing to slow his stealing.“I may have got caught 46 times — I can’t tell you the number, but I got away a lot more than that,” he boasted.

With just under 200 days remaining on his sentence, Rodriguez says he’s clean and swears he’s a changed man. He said he intends to get his GED diploma and end his life of crime. The city’s army of brazen shoplifters is a fairly new phenomenon — the product of reforms that have eliminated pretrial detention and cash bail for most misdemeanor and non-violent felonies, including grand larceny. Perps can be apprehended again and again only to be hit with nothing more than a court summons.42% and 51%, respectively, citywide compared to the same time last year.

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