Depart the gun, take the pastrami.
An unkosher ex-con, with a legal report relationship to the Eighties with over 40 arrests, has been burglarizing kosher groceries and delis on the Sabbath and Excessive Holy Days for years – regardless of 5 jail stints.
Serial schnorrer Angelo Robinson was arrested once more on Oct. 16 for allegedly breaking into two Brooklyn shops in 2024.
Robinson, 61, allegedly stole $30,000 from Kosher Korner in Gravesend on Yom Kippur in 2024 — the holiest day of the Jewish calendar — utilizing a sawzall to interrupt the lock on the again door of the McDonald Avenue grocery store, cops mentioned.
“That is the epitome of the issue of New York,” the proprietor advised The Publish. “What number of instances can a man get arrested?”
“He retains hitting Jewish shops on the Sabbath,” continued the disgusted retailer proprietor, who requested to be recognized as Mr. Cohen. Observant Jews don’t work on Friday after sunset by Saturday at sundown.
Lower than a month later, on Nov. 8, 2024, a Friday evening, he allegedly used a crowbar to interrupt by a rooftop hatch and enter Jerusalem Glatt, a kosher grocery on King’s Freeway, cops mentioned.
Robinson, who has a Staten Island handle, then broke right into a safety room, snipping alarm wires and slicing open a protected to seize $107,000 in gelt, in keeping with a legal criticism towards him.
He may additionally be a suspect in one other housebreaking final month.
He final made headlines in October 2017 when he broke into then-Brooklyn state Sen. Simcha Felder’s workplace and punched a gap into the adjoining Mechy’s Connoisseur on Avenue J, the place he grabbed $5,000 from the register, cops mentioned.
Robinson has served jail time for housebreaking and tried housebreaking, and was most just lately launched from Naked Hill Jail upstate in 2023 after serving 4 years.
He additionally went to jail in 2014, 2008, 2001, 1992 and 1986, for housebreaking, in keeping with the state Division of Corrections and Group Supervision.
However his time behind bars has apparently not been a ok deterrent.
The latest case towards Robinson went stale sooner than day-old bagel when a fingerprint that recognized him because the wrongdoer wasn’t turned over by the cops to prosecutors in time to carry him, in keeping with a legislation enforcement supply. He pled not responsible at his arraignment and was launched on his personal recognizance, courtroom data present.
When requested concerning the case, the NYPD mentioned “this arrest stays lively and the DA is continuing with prosecution.”
Investigators bought the fingerprint as a result of Robinson left a Sawzall blade with a plastic wrapper on it behind in Cohen’s retailer, in keeping with the legal criticism.
“He threw a wrapper … on the ground,” Cohen mentioned. “I placed on a pair of gloves, threw it in a Ziploc bag.”
NYPD detectives had been in a position to pull a latent print from the wrapper that led cops to Robinson by an FBI database.
Cohen bought a name from the NYPD earlier this month telling him the fingerprint was matched with Robinson, in keeping with Cohen and the courtroom paperwork.
Robinson was arrested on Oct. 16 and arraigned on two dozen costs from final yr’s heists, together with housebreaking, grand larceny, possession of stolen property, legal mischief and trespassing, the paperwork present.
Jerusalem Glatt proprietor Danny Farah mentioned he isn’t afraid of dropping cash, however he’s dismayed that Robinson retains committing the identical crime.
“I believe the system is tousled and so they gotta get him behind bars for a protracted, lengthy whereas,” Farah mentioned. “He’s hitting individuals and taking all their hard-earned cash.”
Earlier than Robinson was arrested, one other retailer was burglarized, police sources mentioned.
Mountain Fruit on Avenue M in Midwood was hit within the early morning hours of Saturday, Oct. 11, retailer supervisor Eli Podrigal mentioned. The wrongdoer took $25,000.
The case is beneath investigation and no person has been charged, the NYPD mentioned.
The criminal, who got here in by the roof, had the chutzpah to spend two and a half hours sawing into the protected, the supervisor mentioned.
“He used a grinder with crowbars and hammers and screwdrivers,” Podrigal mentioned, explaining that the burglar repeatedly modified blades that broke through the course of. “He had loads of blades in his backpack to cowl the entire evening. It’s all on video.”
