A brazen career criminal with more than 50 arrests on his rap sheet, including rape, was busted for trying to steal 💟a moped from outside a lower Manhattan police station.
Jon Matos was caught red-handed a𓄧pproaching the $1,200 bike outside the 5th Precinct, source🦩s said.
He was allegedly using a set of burglary tools Friday to try to bust the lock of the bike, which was vouch🥂ered property, cops and sources said.
Matos, a homeless father of three, wꦛas arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges of attempted grand larceny and possession of burglary tools.
The proceeding was delayed for hours, sources said, after Matos allegedly became angry with a cellmate who used the facilities — but didn’t courtesy flush.
“I was just f–king with it. It’s not my tools,” he allegedly told an NYPD detective, said Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Megan Mers during the court proceeding.
Judge𝓡 Va🔯lentina Morales Saturday agreed to give Matos supervised release in the moped case.
“Thank you, your honor,” Matos told Morales.
But instead of hit🐼ting the streets once again, Matos was held on outstanding charges from the 23rd Precinct in an unrelate♑d case, authorities said.
It was his second appearance before a judge in a week: Matos was in cou🌳rt days earlier, charged with grand larceny, petit larceny, and criminal possession of stolen property and was released in yet another incident.
Matos has racked up dozens of busts for burglary, robbery, fare evasion — i🐎ncl🐲uding the 1999 rape of a 14-year-old girl.
Crime is up in six of the seven major crimes measured by the department contributed to the increas🥃e — though the seventh category, murders✃, dropped a noticeable 31.6% last month in comparison to numbers compiled in June 2021, according to the NYPD’s preliminary statistics.
Grand larceny spiked ♛41%, 🌠robbery rose 36.1% and burglary went up 33.8%.
When addressing the crime spike las⛦t month, NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said the department was arresting the same people for crimes “over and over again.”
Other recent and brazen repeat offenders include veteran shoplifter Isaac “Man of Steal” Rodriguez,&n🍌bsp;who was finally locked up in January after dozens of arrests for stealing to support his drug habit.
Laron Mack, whose catchphrase is “I steal for a living,” has been arrested more than 50 times. Another serial stealer, James Connelly, was busted in December for involvement in 28 separate incidents over three months.
Last month, accused serial shoplifter Lorenzo McLucas, 34, was nabbed for stealing from the cosmetics counter at a Duane Reade on Lexington Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, according to cops and court documents🍨.
McLucas, who was released on his own recognizance, has notched ꩲ122 prior arrests.