A $173,000-a-year cop who serves as a driver for a high-ranking NYPD official was caught shoplifting at a Banana Republic store near Police Headquarters — but wasn’t arrested, The Post has learned.
Sgt. Tamas Balatoni, 49, was accused of switching price tags on merchandise amid the crush of last-minute Christmas shopping inside the clothing outlet at 552 Broadway Thursday night, law-enforcement sources said.
A store worker called the NYPD and cops from the Fifth Precinct went to the scene, sources said.
Balatoni wasn’t arrested, but was stripped of his badge and gun and assigned to desk duty, according to sources.
Balatoni, a 20-year NYPD veteran, has a base salary of $108,593 but with overtime earned a total $173,525 during fiscal 2017, records show.
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Believe the terminology that one Donald J. Trump would use is:
ReplyDeleteYOU"RE FIRED!!!!!
Most people steal for the thrill nothing to do with need.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Limelight Lewis will take a job there after retiring from WCSO so he can collect 3 pensions.
ReplyDeleteDamn....173 large to drive his ass chief around. No bad, not bad.
ReplyDeleteGuess $173K wasn't good enough! WOW!
ReplyDeleteCheer on.
ReplyDeleteSo much for "setting the example".
A COP isn't arrested for stealing! A man who has put people in jail for stealing isn't even arrested when he does the exact same thing!
TWO SETS of LAWS.
YOU and I are in cuffs doing the perp walk all the way out to the parking lot and our names and pictures go on the local blog with the police telling us how vigilant they will be against shoplifters.
TWO SETS of LAWS.
He'll have his gun back in a couple of days. His paycheck won't stop coming, however. And he'll retire soon at $135,000 a year.
Keep cheering.