Exclusive | One man scourge with lengthy rap sheet busted for 19 NYC heists just months after prison release: sources

A “one man scourge” with a lengthy rap sheet was busted this week in connection to nearly 20 heists across Manhattan — all allegedly committed in the few months since he was released from prison on parole, sources said.Tony Scott, 38, got out of state lockup in September after serving around six years for several burglary convictions — but apparently couldn’t give up his old, bad ways, authorities said.Scott allegedly launched into his new robbery spree just over a month later — going on to steal electronics and other loot from 19 businesses all on the southern end of the borough, according to police and law-enforcement sources.“He was a one man scourge – he was hitting every neighborhood in lower Manhattan – the Village, Financial District, Chinatown, Gramercy Park, Midtown,” a Manhattan cop told The Post.“Every precinct was looking for him.”He is also a suspect in several other burglaries, sources said. It came despite a warrant for Scott’s arrest being issued Nov.

8 by the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, a spokesman said.The warrant was issued after it was determined that Scott had absconded from “community supervision” — an offense which usually entails failure to stay in touch with a parole officer or notify them of a change of address, the rep said.Scott was granted parole and released on Sept.30 from state prison, where he had been held since August of 2018 in connection to seven burglaries, according to the sources and public records. He also served time for five burglaries in 2012, sources said. Scott, who has at least 32 busts on his record, mostly for burglary, was finally picked up Tuesday by the Midtown South public safety unit.Cops charged him with the 19 burglaries, the most recent of which came Sunday at around 9:40 p.m., when the serial thief allegedly crept in through the side door of a dry cleaning business on West 36th Street and ripped off items worth $2,500, according to police.The...