#Ten percent of Rikers inmates re-arrested after coronavirus release: NYPD

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Some 10 percent of those cut free from Rikers Island due to coronavirus concerns since March have since been arrested — some multiple times, The Post has learned.

Out of the roughly 2,500 inmates let go from the city’s largest jail, 250 have used the freedom to allegedly commit nearly 450 new crimes, NYPD data obtained by The Post shows.

One of the released inmates used his freedom to break into the hotel room of an out-of-state doctor who had flown up from Texas to help with the COVID pandemic.

Ronaldo Lewis was arrested May 26 on charges he swiped around $11,000 in various items from the doctor.

The 29-year-old man was previously cut free on May 6 while he awaited trial for allegedly using a sock stuffed with a heavy object to steal $1,000 from a Manhattan T-Mobile store, sources said.

Police sources said cops have a “good case” in the May 23 incident at the Brooklyn Hotel on Atlantic Avenue near Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights.

“He’s on video going into the room… He IDs himself in the video and when we arrest him he had the doctor’s bag,” the source said.

“But he gets [released] for that and he’s back out again,” the source griped.

“Nobody is going into Rikers and everyone is coming out,” the same source fumed.

Then there’s 27-year-old Jonathan Martinez, who has been arrested and let go pending trial three times since his COVID-related release on March 16 — most recently for hurling a brick through a bodega window on June 6 and allegedly stealing socks, according to WNBC-TV.

He was also arrested for allegedly using a box cutter to rob someone of a phone in March and for allegedly stealing food from a high-end Manhattan grocery store in April, the outlet said.

The Legal Aid Society told WNBC that Martinez was initially released in March because prosecutors were not prepared to move forward with that case — in which he was accused of robbing a make-up store, according to the report.

Another one of the criminal justice frequent fliers was Seth Shaquan — a Bronx man with more than 30 arrests on domestic calls and nearly 60 misdemeanor convictions, sources said.

Shaquan pleaded guilty to criminal contempt on March 20 after ignoring multiple orders of protection by demanding to see his kids in late February, court records show.

The Bronx DA tried to get Shaquan in a drug-treatment program but after the coronavirus shut down the court, the man was given a one year conditional discharged due to COVID concerns, records and sources show.

Shaquan then continued to harass his ex-girlfriend over the five children, police sources said.

On May 2, Shaquan broke into his ex’s apartment and stole two TVs, clothes and other items, according to the criminal complaint.

The Bronx District Attorney requested a $10,000 bail, but Judge Audrey Stone was released him on his own recognizance, according to court records.

“He should never have been ROR-ed on May 5… It’s not only about who’s coming out it’s who’s not going in,” one police source griped.

A judge eventually locked Shaquan up on May 16 after he returned to harass his ex three more times in the night, according to the criminal complaint. He was held on $20,000 bail.