‘Teflon con’ Charles Wold personifies the results of NY’s bail-reform law

It took a number of housebreaking arrests for Wold to be put in jail.
(Kevin C. Downs for The New York

If anybody personifies the penalties of New York’s bail-reform regulation, it’s this man.

Charles Wold, 59, was dubbed the “Teflon con” after he instructed The Put up in January how “grateful” he was that judges repeatedly launched him from custody amid a three-month spree of burglaries in Manhattan and Brooklyn final 12 months.

“I’m too previous to go to jail, I’m means too previous, I can’t do it,” claimed Wold, an admitted drug addict who has served 4 stints in jail.

Wold has greater than 30 arrests, principally for housebreaking and theft relationship again to 1983, together with 11 from 2021 alone.

He was busted again on Nov. 24 for a Manhattan break-in, however set free with out bail the subsequent day. He was then again at his alleged tips on Nov. 28, when he was caught on surveillance breaking right into a Brooklyn deli.

Wold has been arrested over 30 instances in his lengthy legal profession.

Wold was busted for a November Manhattan break-in, however set free with out bail the subsequent day.

Following one more arrest on July 12 for different Manhattan break-ins, Wold was lastly jailed on $10,000 bail.

The transfer got here after prosecutors satisfied a decide it was the “least restrictive means” to make sure Wold returned to courtroom after he twice failed to seem and repeatedly violated probation and parole.