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Suspect, 22, in jail after46 retail-theft busts Long rap sheet also includes Qns. ‘knifing’ Arrested amid record-setting shoplift surge

With 46 arrests for retail theft this year alone, this Man of Steal leads New York City’s record-shattering shoplifting surge.

Were he the supervillain in a heist movie, Isaac Rodriguez, 22, would be called Sir Isaac Lootin’.

But the real-life, allegedly violent bandit has no moniker — just a rap sheet 74 offenses long, dating back to 2015, according to police sources.

The King of Queens Thieves has been arrested 57 times this year alone, including in a vicious stabbing, police sources told The Post.

Rodriguez is finally in jail, but he rode the city’s revolving door of justice to allegedly rip off Walgreens 37 times this year. He was especially partial to the drugstore at 91-08 Roosevelt Ave. in Jackson Heights, which he hit 23 times, police said.

He steals anything from protein drinks and body lotion to baby formula and sexy lingerie, police said.

During one illicit shopping spree, at the Jackson Heights Walgreens on July 7, Rodriguez took “10 units of Ensure, 12 Walgreens wipes, 15 units of Sensodyne toothpaste and 8 units of Cetaphil lotion,” court papers state.

“This guy comes here every day stealing, every single day. He comes and he steals,” fumed the store manager. “We call 911 and make a report, and that’s it.

“They steal and they sell,” the manager groused.

The manager said the alleged Queens klepto has been targeting his Jackson Heights store for “at least a year, at least every single day . . . Sometimes he comes three, four times” a day.

Rodriguez’s M.O. is not sophisticated. He doesn’t use a prosthetic belly or false-bottom boxes favored by professional shoplifters. He simply enters the store and helps himself — filling a bag as he strolls down the aisles, and then walks out, according to store employees and law enforcers.

He’s a one-man crime wave in a city that is being taken over by thieves, said an exasperated law enforcer.

“I don’t know how these [cases] have been handled, but clearly there have been no consequences,” the police source told The Post. “Looking at his rap sheet, there isn’t a hinge moment. He has a storm of criminal activity in his life. The outcomes have not dissuaded him from this path.”

His alleged thievery, which includes 42 counts of petit larceny and three for grand larceny (thefts of more than $1,000 in value), escalated to violence, police said.

Pablo Cusco, 39, was kicked, beaten, robbed and stabbed by Rodriguez and others on June 7 while walking his dog near his Jackson Heights home at 3:20 a.m., according to cops.

The attackers asked Cusco for $1. When he complied, their thank-you was to snatch his cellphone. When Cusco tried to resist, he was pummeled and was treated at Elmhurst Hospital for four puncture wounds to the leg and buttocks.

A few weeks later, Rodriguez was arrested and charged with gang assault.

“[Rodriguez] almost killed me. He should stay in jail for sure, for sure,” Cusco told The Post. “I was punched a lot and stabbed with a knife. I’m still scared because they may find me again.”

Three months earlier, the courts and prosecutors had a chance to get Rodriguez off the streets.

On March 12, he was arrested after he was spotted on a roof landing of the Queensbridge North Houses in alleged possession of a large knife. He was charged with trespassing and a violation for the knife, court papers state. He was issued only a deskappearance ticket.

“For the most part, the top charge in his cases are not bail-eligible offenses,” said a spokeswoman for the Queens District Attorney’s Office.

He landed in jail when Queens Criminal Court Judge David Kirschner on Aug. 26 set bail at $15,000. The case stemmed from an Aug. 24 incident at the Walgreens on National Street in Corona, where Rodriguez went through his shoplifting routine, but in doing so violated an order of protection. Rodriguez had hit the Corona location 13 times, sources said.

The Post’s reporting on the career criminal led the NYPD’s top cop to react with outrage.

“Insanity,” Commissioner Dermot Shea tweeted Saturday. “No other way to describe the resulting crime that has flowed from disastrous bail-reform law.”

There are 77 other thieves right now walking the streets of New York with rap sheets of 20 or more shoplifting charges, NYPD sources say. As of Sept. 12, the city has seen 26,385 complaints of retail theft — the most ever recorded in records going back to 1995.

“It’s very prolific, and it’s really about recidivism. That’s who is committing these grand larcenies and these petty larcenies,” NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri told The Post.

He said 37 percent of those arrested for larceny have a pending felony case.

“There’s not a lot of accountability when it comes to these crimes,” he said.

The chief said the NYPD is working with stores on prevention measures such as reporting incidents in real time and pouring foot patrols and other resources into business districts, especially Midtown.

Still, Gotham recorded 3,709 retail-theft complaints in August — a monthly record.

On Sept. 8, an 11-year-old boy was slashed by a pair of shoplifters while defending his family’s Avenue D Mini Mart in Manhattan, police said.