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Thomas Tracy

Cops bust one man crime spree � suspect arrested for 18 separate crimes in one day

NEW YORK _ If it has four wheels, Terik Williams allegedly wants it.

The 47-year-old Queens resident was arrested late Tuesday for being a one-man crime spree _ and was arrested for 18 separate crimes after the New York Police Department linked him to a series of van and ATM thefts across the city dating back to November, police said.

Members of the NYPD Grand Larceny Division accused Williams of stealing vans on Merritt and Barnes Avenues in the Bronx in November and December, swiping a Dodge Caravan on Bruckner Boulevard on Jan. 28, a Ford E 250 van on 51st Avenue and 25th Street in Queens on Feb. 13 and taking a Chevrolet Suburban on Elderts Lane in East New York, Brooklyn on March 4 _ and that's just a third of the crimes he's alleged to have committed, officials said.

He's also responsible for breaking into at least two bodegas _ one in Queens and one in the Bronx, where he wheeled out two standalone ATMs, cops said.

At least one of the vans he stole contained $10,000 worth of goods that he and a partner secretly sold to neighborhood bodegas, officials said.

Williams' arraignment was pending on Wednesday evening. His partner in some of these crimes hasn't been caught.

Police sources said Williams has been arrested at least 40 times.

In 2012 he was sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of a car theft in Brooklyn, but was paroled in 2015, according to court records.

His parole ended in 2017, officials said.

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