How a serial burglar exploited NY’s lax bail laws — and the effort it took to finally lock him up
Story by Larry Celona, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon • 19h
A serial burglar was free to terrorize Big Apple businesses more than a dozen times because of the state’s lax bail laws — until his flagrant disregard for the law finally caught up to him, The Post has learned.
Orest Kovalshyn, 37, had a string of commercial burglary arrests in Queens and Brooklyn dating to 2022, but was repeatedly cut loose because state criminal justice reforms barred judges from setting bail.
Even when Brooklyn prosecutors won a conviction last year that landed Kovalshyn a 1-to-3-year state prison stint, he was back on the streets in less than a year — and getting busted and released again.
But his latest arrest, just months after he left prison, finally did him in, when Kovalshyn blew off court one too many times, got pinched for two more Queens heists and violated his state parole.
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