They Are Putting This 82 Year Old Man In Jail For 5 Years For Breaking Into Luxury Apartments And Stealing Their Jewelry While They're On Vacation
NY Post - An 82-year-old bandit known as the Holiday Bandit was sentenced to five years of prison on Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Samuel Sabatino had previously pleaded guilty to attempted burglary, bail jumping, burglary and tampering with evidence.
In addition to the prison sentence, he’ll be placed under five years post-release supervision for committing a string of high-end burglaries since 2014.
Dubbed the “Holiday Bandit” by investigators, the octogenarian would slip into ritzy Upper East Side apartment buildings while residents were away during holiday breaks like July 4 and Memorial Day.
Sabatino stole $400,000 worth of high-end watches, jewels and diamond rings since 2014, but his fun ended when he was collared in the fall.
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I love this old coot! 82 years old and still addicted to the robbery game. Most people grow out of breaking and entering by 23 year old, get a job at the local Pep Boys, and only steal petty things like candy bars from gas stations, but not Samuel Sabatino, oh no. When you think he's a nice old man who bounces his grandchildren on his knee and tells stories about Vietnam while eating the early bird dinner at Denny's, he's actually stealing watches and diamonds from apartments on the Upper East Side. What a god damn legend. He is like the Ric Flair of breaking and entering, he cannot quit it. 82 years old and still needs to be the stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin' and dealin' son of a gun.
And the fact at 82 he earned himself the nickname the Holiday Bandit. So cool. Most people go their entire life without getting an awesome nickname like that. I hope he has it in his will to put Holiday Bandit on his tombstone. People walk by his grave and say "man there lies the Holiday Bandit, the wildest old man to ever do it". Street cred from the dead like you read about.
And a big thumbs down to the judge in this case! Sir! Resign sir! The judge had to make a joke while he's about to lock up this geezer?
“Apparently you’re someone who hasn’t aged out of committing crimes,” joked Judge Gregory Carro who then warned Sabatino not to get arrested again.
What the hell man? It's bad enough he's about to spend his remaining years cooped up in a jail cell without a Werther's Original to be found, the judge really had to take a shot at him on the way out? Not cool!
But hey, it's better to be known for something than nothing, right? And when Sammy the Bandit is long gone, generations will still tell his tales.