Victim, 89 Furious Pickpocket Released Without Bail After Taking His Wallet and Charging over $1,200

 

An 89-year-old Manhattan man whose wallet was snatched by a serial pickpocket said he’s grateful cops caught the career crook so quickly — and furious the accused thief was cut loose without bail the very next day.

"F—ing-A it angers me," a frustrated Norman Heyman fumed to The Post Wednesday.

"I hate to see people go to jail," he said. "But damn it if somebody keeps on doing this over and over and over again, and he hasn’t learned a lesson. The political forces that are here are not making citizens happy. It’s not making me happy. I don’t have an answer for it."

Heyman was food shopping with his wife at the Martin Williams supermarket on East 23rd Street around 2:30 p.m. Saturday when the caught-on-video theft took place, cops said.

Heyman said he realized his wallet was missing and, believing he’d left it behind, returned home — but it wasn’t there, so he returned to the food store.

That’s when the store manager showed him the surveillance footage and he called cops.

"I said, ‘Somebody took my wallet,'" he told the officers. "And they said, ‘I know. We have it,’ which sent me into absolute shock."

"Here I figured I’m good for about another week of running all these things down and they said, ‘No. We have it,'" Heyman said. "And I said, ‘I’m not going to ask you how and when and where you got this guy, but God bless you.'"

Police arrested Robert Stover, 58, who allegedly charged more than $1,200 on the card before he was taken into custody, police said.

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