A man named Vincent Traficante has been arrested for allegedly stealing from Lululemon stores in Manhattan. He has been arrested 12 times this year, with six of those times at one particular store. His latest attempt to steal from the Broadway store was caught on video and he was apprehended. He is reported to have stolen merchandise worth between $38 and $48 each time. He seems to be focusing on stealing bags and has been known to target the same store multiple times.
Talk about a lemon. Cops have collared a prolific Manhattan retail menace who’s hit Lululemon stores a dozen times since January — including six times at one location, sources said. “One-man crime spree” Vincent Traficante, 37, has been arrested a dozen times this year with an insatiable taste for raiding Manhattan’s ritzy Lululemon boutiques, law enforcement sources revealed to The Post.
Cops nabbed Traficante on Tuesday during what was his sixth attempt at boosting merchandise worth between $38 and $48 each from the Broadway store.
He was caught on video pulling items out of the displays — including bags — that were worth about $790 altogether, according to the complaint. Then he allegedly walked right past the cashiers and disappeared into the city.
Before that, on March 5, Traficante snagged more than $1,000 worth of goods from the store at 592 Fifth Avenue.
And that came just six days after he grabbed about $700 worth of stuff from a store at 520 Broadway — the same seller he robbed on Tuesday.
“He’s focusing on bags,” one sources said. “He’s hit 520 Broadway six times.”
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