A crafty crook with “Spidey” skills has been busted for breaking into 13 lower Manhattan apartments, often using windows and skylights for acrobatic entries, cops said yesterday.
The suspect, Ramon Pacheco, 45, who allegedly took as much as $5,000 in two of his strikes, also collected laptops, iPods and cameras in break-ins around the East Village and Lower East Side, cops said.
“He’s kind of like a Spider-Man,” a law-enforcement source said. “Sometimes he’s kicking in windows. Sometimes he’s going through skylights. One time, he kicked in an air conditioner and crawled inside the apartment.
Pacheco, who has spent 10 years in prison, allegedly struck one building on East 10th Street six times, according to court records.
He was busted on Saturday after he took a nap in an empty apartment in that building and was discovered by the super. He fled, leaving behind his cellphone and a T-shirt.
Cops apparently tracked him using DNA evidence from the shirt.
Seven of the incidents were in the Ninth Precinct, which has seen nearly a 90 percent surge in burglaries in the month ending Sept. 13, compared to the same period last year.
Burglaries are up about 32 percent in the precinct for the year.