Downtown Manhattan Pillaged By Pint-Sized Perps

When they're not shooting themselves in the groin, threatening to kill the president, or trying to blow up Starbucks, the city's rebellious youngsters continue to commit the less sensational crime of burglary. Cops arrested two teenagers suspected of ransacking dozens of lower Manhattan apartments in separate burglary sprees.

On Tuesday, police cuffed 13-year-old Dominique Parrott, who allegedly raided at least 14 apartments in the Lower East Side and East Village by climbing on fire escapes and opening unlocked windows. According to the Post, Parrott, and his accomplices who remain on the lam, avoided arrest because cops were searching for perps "in their 20s or 30s." They caught Parrot — who claimed he was just a lookout — in Tompkins Square Park after an officer recognized the teen as a runaway who fled from a group home in Dobbs Ferry, "where he was placed last month after allegedly stealing a car."

The arrest comes just five days after police collared a 15-year-old with a lengthy rap sheet who allegedly burglarized 25 West Village apartments with the help of his 13-year-old brother. Juan Gonzalez (pictured) — a suspect dubbed both "baby-faced" and "Oliver Twist-like" by the Post — was caught in the act in Richmond Hill, Queens with his sibling on Friday.

After being apprehended, Gonzalez, who was first arrested when he was just 11, confessed to "another 10 to 20 break-ins" in the West Village. Relatives put the blame on the six months he served in a detention center following a 2008 arrest. "Instead of going to school, he learned how to be a burglar," his stepgrandfather, José Vasquez, said.

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By Ben Muessig in News on October 15, 2009 4:40 PM

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hunter.blatherer

Who says kids these days don't have ambition and work ethic?

iloveveggies

There are so many people who shouldn't be parents but this society and religion convinces dumb people that they should have kids. I feel bad for the kid because he didn't have a chance. He probably had no good influences in his life at all and the church that his heroin addicted mom probably bought him to told him that as long as he confessed to anything bad he did, he was going to heaven. It's just another sad part of this dumb society.

Running Man

lock them up - when they are small you don't need to worry overcrowding.

Wza

Not surprised.

Happens all the time.

Names change, but the game remains the same.

Snoopy

"Relatives put the blame on the six months he served in a detention center following a 2008 arrest. "Instead of going to school, he learned how to be a burglar," his stepgrandfather, José Vasquez, said."

This sounds like a tight knit family, give them all a break.

What is the father and mother's stance on little Dominique, Juan, Jose, Jorge, Pedro and the other Eagle scouts in the family? Oops can't find them? Why? Did they move back to the old country to avoid a drug conviction?

NannyState

"....now where did I leave that damn Fisher-Price electric chair?"

ohgoodgolly

Wait, it's the fault of the 8 months he spent in juvie? Why was he in there in the first place? Some parents are so damn delusional and unable to take responsibility for their own children.

Snoopy

They's be good kids and all. They didn't never belong to gangs and shit. No Cribs and Bluds and shit. He was be going to get his fort grade graduashun certificate just before he was asconded.

His step aunt Rosalia just bought him a new shirt for the graduashun party. And now this.

Toast the mofo!

T

Snoopy, let's try to keep it to one dickhead, ignorant, not funny comment per article.

Like any good showman says, you got to keep your audience wanting more!

Snoopy

One more thing Mr T. I coached and managed little league baseball for eight years and a lot of my players came from disadvantaged families where one came from a family of five, none of the children had the same father. The kid was confused and angry. I tried to work with him but somehow he thought he was owed more. Sorry he wasn't. His mother was basically a dumb individual.

Another one of the players mother was a heroin addict. The kid was a total pain in the ass. His father tried to help out but he was no better, he was arrested on cocaine dealing a few years later.

Now where did you do your community service?

Snoopy

Good point. Can you now stop reading anymore of my comments so you don't get upset?

Plus I'm not making funny. I'm just reflecting on the assholes that constantly insist that their ignorant non English speaking spawn keep fucking up at an early and also at a later stage of life and can't figure why they do since they have pictures of them when they were calved and looked so innocent.

hotstepper

bastard kids like this grow up to be bastard adults who eventually produce more bastard kids. the circle of lowlife continues unabated.

Nyctini11

Hmmmm, maybe these are the same people who've been shooting up the LES with BBguns

imadick

it's all cute until he robs my apartment.

babyhitler

Yeah put the blame on the detention center and not the lack of parental guidance. Next stop for this kid is killing someone u love in the not too distant future

Steven

Yep. It's never my fault it's always someone else. Wonder why this child is completely lost. His parents don't even take responsibility for themselves.

Gwinny

I chased some kids who looked like this off the roof of my building on the LES a few years ago. Stupid kids, get offa my roof!

Qraymond

"Thompkins Square Park"?

Where the hell is that?

fauxsella

Wait, it's okay. The mother was re-interviewed and said her "boy would never commit a crime ever," and that "includes crimes while going around with baseball's Juan Gonzalez."

Mr. Shankly

Nice record.

Go directly to Rikers. Do not pass Go.

Snoopy

Such a cute kid. Now take him out and shoot him, along with his mother his brothers and sisters his step fathers, step grandfathers and anyone else related to the piece of shit.