KIPS BAY — A homeless man followed a woman into an apartment building and then stole her empty stroller, according to authorities.
The victim was entering the lobby of her East 25th Street apartment at about 3:55 p.m. on Dec. 16, when the 41-year-old suspect came up behind and told her he lived in the building, police said.
He followed her into the building, grabbed the woman's empty stroller and fled, according to police.
Police responded to a radio call of a burglary in progress, and found the thief, a resident of the 30th Street Men’s Shelter, still on the block with the stolen stroller, valued at $1,000, authorities said.
Prosecutors charged the man with burglary and criminal possession of stolen property. A judge ordered him held on $3,000 bail pending his next court date on Jan. 20, court records show.
The thief had pleaded guilty on Oct. 7 to charges of criminal possession of a weapon in a separate case, and he spent two years in prison on robbery charges more than two decades ago from 1992 to 1994, records show.
A lawyer for the man did not return a request for comment.
