Last week, the NYPD’s 19th Precinct shared a post on X / Twitter announcing that “another career criminal” with “40+ lifetime arrests” had been arrested by their officers after “[he broke] into Upper East Side apartment buildings to steal packages.”
No, you’re not experiencing déjà vu!
Our Public Safety cops caught another career criminal, well known for burglaries, breaking into Upper East Side apartment buildings to steal packages!With 40+ lifetime arrests, 8 this year alone, this recidivist is now back in custody! pic.twitter.com/tuWFmDZx7F
— NYPD 19th Precinct (@NYPD19Pct) February 6, 2025
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East Side Feed reached out to the NYPD’s media office (DCPI) for more info, and officials told us that 41-year-old Al Booker was most recently arrested on burglary charges on February 1. This incident took place on 67th and Lexington Avenue at about 11:30 p.m., when Booker “entered the location without permission or authority and removed a stroller, hair clips and bottle of water.” He was arrested at the scene.
Earlier this year, Booker was arrested for similar incidents on 93rd and First Avenue and 95th and Second Avenue, and his 41 lifetime arrests have been primarily for burglary and criminal trespassing.
The New York Post reports that after being “set free dozens of times by sympathetic judges after committing numerous heists,” Booker was “finally ordered to be held without bail following a bust for eight burglaries on the Upper East Side in the last two months alone.”
According to the NYPD, the six arrests preceding those on 93rd and 95th streets (mentioned above) all took place in the lower East 100s between First and Lexington avenues.
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I lived at 345 E 94th Street for 25 years and watched in slowly deteriorate where there was an arson of a Chinese Restaurant on 1st Avenue between 95th and 96th, a hammer attack on 94/1 and a shooting on at at garage on E93. We have to break loose from the hold of the Democratic Party that is full of people whose relatives had criminal records and put Judges and Prosecutors in who don’t have and uncle or a cousin behind bars.