> This guy never met a pocket he didn’t want to pick,” a disgusted law enforcement source said.

> The sticky-fingered suspect has lodged 66 arrests in all and currently has three open cases tied to a slew of Manhattan pickpocket busts — in which he was released without bail each time.

> In two of his most recent cases, even Manhattan prosecutors from soft-on-crime District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office argued that Mickens be held on cash bail as high as $75,000 because of his repeat arrests, citing a tweak to the state’s heavily criticized bail-reform laws that supposedly allows the move.

> Mickens had been charged in each case with fourth-degree grand larceny, a non-violent felony that is not eligible for bail under the controversial criminal reform statutes. The 2019 state bail-reform measures, viewed as excessively lenient by critics, changed the landscape of the criminal-justice system in the Empire State.

> The measure eliminated bail for misdemeanors and many felony changes, stripping judges of discretion to order defendants held, including repeat offenders.

> In two of his most recent cases, even Manhattan prosecutors from soft-on-crime District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office argued that Mickens be held on cash bail as high as $75,000 because of his repeat arrests, citing a tweak to the state’s heavily criticized bail-reform laws that supposedly allows the move.

> Mickens had been charged in each case with fourth-degree grand larceny, a non-violent felony that is not eligible for bail under the controversial criminal reform statutes.

> The “harm on harm” statute is one of the few tools prosecutors still have to argue for bail in cases involving non-bail-eligible offenses — but it’s a remedy not typically granted.