A gray-haired career criminal was sentenced Monday to 25 years to life behind bars after admitting to carrying out a spate of home-invasion robberies across Manhattan.
William Rodriguez, 57, pleaded guilty to a 20-count indictment charging him in five robberies in 2009 where he’d tied up his female victims at knifepoint and fled with their valuables.
The Bronx thug is already serving a 20-years-to-life sentence after a Manhattan jury convicted him of burglarizing a West Village woman’s home in 2012.
Between October and November 2009, the knife-wielding brute robbed the victims by either following them into their apartment or breaking in. In one instance, the heartless thug beat up an elderly woman in her West Village apartment before tying her up with a phone cord and fleeing with her possessions.
Rodriguez also targeted two nannies in separate robberies, both involving young children who were not injured. He was additionally sentenced Monday to one year on each of the two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
In 2011, Rodriguez was sprung from Rikers Island after prosecutors botched a DNA sample request. He was thrown back in jail, though, two days later for failing to report to his parole officer.
“William Rodriguez’s one-man crime spree in Manhattan residences has come to an end,” said Manhattan DA Cy Vance. “This defendant’s conviction was the result of both time-tested traditional investigative work and modern forensic testing. He will now be spending the next few decades in prison for his myriad of crimes.”