A teenage serial burglar with a violent past escaped from an Upper Manhattan precinct tonight — and remained on the lam for more than three hours before cops finally managed to catch him again, police sources said.
Slippery young suspect Roilin Reynoso, 17, of The Bronx had just been arrested on multiple counts of burglary and was being held in the detectives’ squad unit at the 33rd Precinct station house in Washington Heights when he escaped around 5:45 p.m., sources said.
It was unclear how he managed to slip out of the precinct, but a manhunt was immediately launched, with cops searching the neighborhood around the precinct on Amsterdam Avenue between West 169th and 170th streets on the edge of Highbridge Park, as well as the perp’s mom’s house, sources said.
The teen was finally found at 9 p.m. — a few blocks from the station house — hiding at a friend’s on West 162nd Street, the sources said. He was taken into custody without incident.
Reynoso has at least four prior arrests: for grand larceny, criminal contempt and two assaults. There also are sealed charges against him.
There were no immediate details on the burglaries he was charged with today.