Bike Thief Sentenced to Six Years

From an Uptown Update submission:

Another case I thought your readers might be interested in. You posted about a burglary from a building on Agatite last November where someone had gotten inside and stolen two bikes. The cops were on top of it and found the guy a couple blocks away with the bikes.

Well, that turned out to be someone you've posted about before, Michael Greenstreet. He'd just gotten out of prison a couple months earlier from another residential burglary in Uptown when he stole the bikes on Agatite. So now he's back behind bars, sentenced to six years. This was his tenth conviction of burglary. He used to give his address as the REST Shelter, but his address is The Illinois Penal System for the next few years."

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Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on February 11, 2012 at 5:18am

That guy looks like Death warmed over.

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Permalink Reply by Vilda on February 11, 2012 at 5:24am

Drugs are a motherfucker.

Have fun in prison crackhead.

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Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on February 11, 2012 at 5:47am

If only crack were free...

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on February 11, 2012 at 6:38am

Thanks for sharing the news.

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Permalink Reply by David on February 11, 2012 at 6:39am

Of course, if you follow that link, you'll see that just two years ago he was sentenced to eight years in prison for the last burglary conviction. So I'd take that six-year sentence with a grain of salt.

This game of plea-bargain/revolving-door is probably the worst criminal system possible. They're basically locking him up just long enough to ensure he'll find it next to impossible to get his life together afterwards, but not so long that the residents of the area have any real protection. Within two years, we'll probably be seeing conviction #11.

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Permalink Reply by mike w. on February 11, 2012 at 6:49am

Out in 2... maybe sooner- he doesn't look like a well man.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on February 11, 2012 at 6:50am

At least he's off the streets for a while - better than nothing.

mike w. said:

Out in 2... maybe sooner- he doesn't look like a well man.

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Permalink Reply by mike w. on February 11, 2012 at 6:55am

What i meant was he looks like he's already got one foot in the grave...

But, like bugs, if you get one another hundred are in the walls.

Anne Alt said:

At least he's off the streets for a while - better than nothing.

mike w. said:

Out in 2... maybe sooner- he doesn't look like a well man.

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Permalink Reply by Bike Bloke on February 11, 2012 at 11:26am

Well, the headline sounded good, and it raised my hopes that finally the justice system is taking bike theft seriously and this would make a really good precedent. But then the guy was obviously sentenced as a repeat burglar, rather than a persistent bike thief. Still waiting....