Ice-cream thief off to the 'cooler'

Jailed after dopey ‘I’m in Post’ boast

He’s canceling his subscription.

One of the city’s infamous “Bonnie & Clyde’’ ice-cream bandits landed 30 days in jail Friday — and said he has The Post to thank for it.

“I always read The Post. I’m starting not to like it now,’’ grumbled Mark Hicks, whose landlord said the thief boasted about his exploits while waving around a Post article with his surveillance picture in it.

Hicks, 37, and accomplice Ebony Gillian, 34, were pinched for a coldhearted heist at the Gristedes in Chelsea in which they bagged 49 pints of Häagen-Dazs and 31 pints of Ben & Jerry’s. Supermarket magnate John Catsimatidis had put out a $5,000 bounty on their heads after the theft.

The duo’s uncool high jinks were part of a longrunning scheme in which they would allegedly swipe up to 50 pints at a time from various stores, raking in $700 a day by flipping the pints to bodegas for resale.

Hicks — who also allegedly ate plenty of his loot — wore a roomy tan jailhouse jumpsuit while pleading guilty in Manhattan Criminal Court to petit larceny.

US Magistrate Judge Frank Maas read the charges, which included “stolen property including ice cream” and sentenced the treats thief to 30 days behind bars. The portly pilferer Hicks is also accused of stealing 27 containers of ice cream from a 7-Eleven, according to a criminal complaint.

Hicks said nothing in court, but lamented about The Post’s cover- age of him to one of the paper’s photographers on his way out.

Gillian had been scheduled to appear in court Friday afternoon, but her arraignment was postponed for two weeks.

The two were busted at a Brooklyn bus stop Sunday after a tipster called cops to report them.

A man who identified himself as their landlord has told The Post that Hicks “loved to brag about” his exploits, waving around a Post article about his crime and bragging, “I’m famous!”

The duo sometimes sat on the couch in their Brownsville apartment and ate the stolen ice cream right from the container, the man said.

Hicks would dig into cartons of Häagen-Dazs Cookies & Cream while Gillian favored the brand’s Dulce de Leche, the man said.