A serial shoplifter with dozens of arrests on his report instructed The Post “I steal for a living” after being launched but once more on Thursday.
Laron Mack’s surprising admission got here after his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on petit larceny and prison possession of stolen property fees.
“I’m broke, I’m homeless and I steal for a living,” the 50-year-old man, in a tattered zip-up sweater, mentioned whereas masking his face.
Asked what he steals, Mack replied matter-of-factly: “Beer.”
Authorities allege Mack and one other man stole Bud Light, breakfast sausages and oatmeal from a Duane Reade on the Upper East Side on Wednesday.
A employee on the retailer, on the nook of East 79th Street and Second Avenue, noticed the thieves placing their loot into a procuring bag and leaving with out paying, in keeping with a prison grievance.
Mack pleaded responsible throughout the listening to and was sentenced to conditional discharge. As half of the plea deal, he’ll have to finish three periods with the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES) program.
Mack was additionally busted on March 5 for allegedly grabbing a 12-pack of Modello and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups from a Duane Reade in Hamilton Heights the day prior, police mentioned.
Police say that out of Mack’s quite a few arrests 30 are unsealed, most of them for low-level offenses equivalent to petit larceny, which isn’t eligible for bail beneath state regulation.
Stores throughout the Big Apple have seen a latest rash of thefts.
Last month, a shoplifter scuffled with a safety guard at a Manhattan Duane Reade — proper in entrance of a Post journalist and photographer there to report on an earlier armed heist on the identical retailer.
