Convicted Stapleton burglar was back at it with another break-in, court papers say

 

 

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A convicted burglar from Stapleton is headed back to his old stamping ground — prison — after admitting he broke into an Annadale home.

Irvin Perez, 35, swiped jewelry, a camera, luggage and other items from a Seguine Place home on Oct. 29, court papers said.

Perez escaped after that heist, but was nabbed four days later after allegedly trying to break into homes on Churchill Avenue, Charleston, and Savo Loop, Pleasant Plains.

Perez damaged a side door at the Churchill Avenue home and ripped a screen and frame from a rear window on Savo Loop, court papers said. In each instance, he told cops he was apartment-hunting. However, Perez had shown the Savo Loop resident an apparent energy company ID badge and said he was dropping off a bill, said court records.

A neighbor telephoned a retired cop, who grabbed the defendant at the Pleasant Plains station of the Staten Island Railway, said a law enforcement source.

Prosecutors said Perez was carrying burglar’s tools, handcuffs and an imitation pistol in a bag.

Perez pinched a bottle of lotion from Savo Loop but went away empty-handed from Churchill Avenue, court papers said.

However, in a prior incident on Sept. 12, he was accused of stealing sports figurines and autographed helmets from a home on Osgood Avenue, Stapleton.

Perez, who was living there then, stole the figurines from the basement. A witness saw him entering a cab with them, said the source.

The source said Perez was traced to the Seguine Place burglary though a fingerprint, which he left on a political flier found at the scene.

The defendant pleaded guilty on Friday in state Supreme Court, St. George, to a felony count of second-degree burglary, said a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan. It was the top charge against him.

Under his plea, Perez will be sentenced on July 7 to seven years in prison.

Assistant District Attorney Kelly Carroll is prosecuting the case.

Advance records show Perez was sentenced in January 2005 to five years in prison on a burglary conviction. Earlier this decade, he was convicted of attempted burglary in the Bronx and sentenced to two to four years, according to online state Department of Correctional Services records.