Man arrested 99 times - do you think he can be rehabilitated?

A man who has been arrested 99 times and convicted 24 times is heading back to state prison after pleading guilty on Monday to obstructing police.



Alberto Luis Alvarez, 37, of Chicago, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by Judge Gilbert J. Grossi. He was also charged with felony possession of heroin, but that charge was dropped.



According to one police source, Alvarez did such a good job trying to destroy evidence while police were attempting to arrest him on Aug. 10 that, in the end, they were only able to connect Alvarez directly to about 0.1 grams of heroin.



Police were called to the 7200 block of Ogden Avenue at 2:38 p.m. on Aug. 10 to investigate a suspicious man who was pushing a stroller and begging for money door to door.



When they arrived, police located Alvarez, who was pushing a stroller with a 3-year-old girl inside of it. He tried to flee police and began destroying evidence as he ran.



Police later learned that Alvarez, who police say has used 10 alias dates of birth, nine alias names and five alias Social Security numbers throughout his criminal career, had been arrested 98 times previously and had been convicted of a slew of offenses, ranging from robbery and burglary to invasion of privacy and numerous drug cases.



According to police, he was on Ogden Avenue because he had family members in nearby Lyons. He was trying to obtain money from sympathetic people by claiming he was injured and using the 3 year old for dramatic emphasis. After the arrest, the child was placed in the care of a family member.



Really this guy has to be one of the most incompetent criminals of our time. How else do you explain 99 arrests and 24 convictions? He might as well be wearing a sign informing the world, "I'm a crook!" He really should consider a career change, when he gets out of prison in 18 months.



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