A prolific city pickpocket with 45 prior busts — including four this month alone — was just nabbed for allegedly stealing from a snoozing straphanger, becoming the latest poster boy for revolving door justice.
Rudell Faulkner, 64, is accused of snatching an iPhone out of the hands of a 54-year-old man who had dozed off on a No. 4 train in The Bronx around 2:15 a.m. Sunday, according to police sources.
Cops were able to track down the suspect to a West Fordham Road deli and recover the stolen property from him with the Find My iPhone app, sources said.
“Today’s arrest marks the 46th time NYPD cops arrested him — including 8 times in the past 12 months and 4 times already this year alone (2024),” officers with the NYPD’s Transit Bureau wrote on Instagram about Faulkner’s felony grand-larceny arrest.
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