Shabbas Ganiv keeps hitting NYC kosher stores on the Sabbath but remains free

 

Leave the gun, take the pastrami.

An unkosher ex-con, with a criminal record dating to the 1980s with over 40 arrests, has been burglarizing kosher groceries and delis on the Sabbath and High Holy Days for years – despite five prison stints.

Serial schnorrer Angelo Robinson was arrested again on Oct. 16 for allegedly breaking into two Brooklyn stores 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 — using a sawzall to break the lock on the back door of the McDonald Avenue supermarket, cops said.

“This is the epitome of the problem of New York,” the owner told The Post. “How many times can a guy get arrested?

“He keeps hitting Jewish stores on the Sabbath,” continued the disgusted store owner, who asked to be identified as Mr. Cohen. Observant Jews don’t work on Friday after sundown through Saturday at sunset.

Less than a month later, on Nov. 8, 2024, a Friday night, he allegedly used a crowbar to break through a rooftop hatch and enter Jerusalem Glatt, a kosher grocery on King’s Highway, cops said.

Robinson, who has a Staten Island address, then broke into a security room, snipping alarm wires and cutting open a safe to grab $107,000 in gelt, according to a criminal complaint against him.

He may also be a suspect in another burglary last month.

He last made headlines in October 2017 when he broke into then-Brooklyn state Sen. Simcha Felder’s office and punched a hole into the adjacent Mechy’s Gourmet on Avenue J, where he grabbed $5,000 from the register, cops said.

Robinson has served prison time for burglary and attempted burglary, and was most recently released from Bare Hill Prison upstate in 2023 after serving four years.

He also went to prison in 2014, 2008, 2001, 1992 and 1986, for burglary, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

But his time behind bars has apparently not been a good enough deterrent.

The most recent case against Robinson went stale faster than day-old bagel when a fingerprint that identified him as the culprit wasn’t turned over by the cops to prosecutors in time to hold him, according to a law enforcement source. He pled not guilty at his arraignment and was released on his own recognizance, court records show.

When asked about the case, the NYPD said “this arrest remains active and the DA is proceeding with prosecution.”

Investigators got the fingerprint because Robinson left a Sawzall blade with a plastic wrapper on it behind in Cohen’s store, according to the criminal complaint.

“He threw a wrapper … on the floor,” Cohen said. “I put on a pair of gloves, threw it in a Ziploc bag.”

NYPD detectives were able to pull a latent print from the wrapper that led cops to Robinson through an FBI database.

Cohen got a call from the NYPD earlier this month telling him the fingerprint was matched with Robinson, according to Cohen and the court documents.

Robinson was arrested on Oct. 16 and arraigned on two dozen charges from last year’s heists, including burglary, grand larceny, possession of stolen property, criminal mischief and trespassing, the documents show.

Jerusalem Glatt owner Danny Farah said he isn’t afraid of losing money, but he is dismayed that Robinson keeps committing the same crime.

“I think the system is messed up and they gotta get him behind bars for a long, long while,” Farah said. “He’s hitting people and taking all their hard earned money.”

Before Robinson was arrested, another store was burglarized, police sources said.

Mountain Fruit on Avenue M in Midwood was hit in the early morning hours of Saturday, Oct. 11, store manager Eli Podrigal said. The culprit took $25,000.

The case is under investigation and nobody has been charged, the NYPD said.

The crook, who came in through the roof, had the chutzpah to spend two and a half hours sawing into the safe, the manager said.

“He used a grinder with crowbars and hammers and screwdrivers,” Podrigal said, explaining that the burglar repeatedly changed blades that broke during the process. “He had plenty of blades in his backpack to cover the whole night. It’s all on video.”