'Burberry Bandit' with dozens of prior arrests walks free after latest blue city crime spree: report

Neilly was arrested on Sept. 15 after police said he robbed five banks throughout New York City over the course of one month, the outlet reported. In each case, Neilly allegedly passed a note to the bank teller demanding cash, the NYPD confirmed to Fox News Digital. 

Neilly allegedly asked for the same amount of money when he entered the Chase Bank on Park Avenue and East 26th Street on Aug. 25, where he ultimately walked out with $716, the outlet said. 

Just two weeks later, on Sept. 9, Neilly is accused of entering another Chase Bank in Midtown and demanding $4,500 - but reportedly ran off when the teller sounded the alarm. 

On Sept. 12, Neilly allegedly demanded $3,500 from the Chase Bank on West Fourth Street in the West Village. The next day, he allegedly made off empty-handed after handing a teller at the Chelsea Chase Bank a note that read, "This is a robbery. I want all large bills. Now. This is real," causing the employee to trigger the bank's silent alarm. 

Neilly has a long rap sheet of over 34 prior arrests for previous bank robberies, the NYPD confirmed to Fox News Digital. However, upon appearing in front of Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Jeffrey Gershuny, he was allowed back on the streets on supervised release, according to the Post. 

"The fact that the bail was declined by this judge is negligent on the judge's part," an NYPD officer who asked to remain anonymous told the New York Post. "It shows a real lack of care for public safety."

"At what point does he keep getting out and gets desperate and brings a gun to a robbery instead of a note and kills somebody?"

The controversial decision comes just one month after Gershuny was demoted to presiding over misdemeanor cases in criminal court following an incident in which he reportedly pulled out his own gun on the bench while hearing a weapons case, the Post reported.

According to the Post, in an August court hearing, Gershuny asked a police officer to demonstrate how a suspect was concealing a weapon, before reaching for his own gun while presiding over the case. The incident reportedly resulted in Gershuny being moved to hearing night court cases in Manhattan Criminal Court. 

"The court system does not comment on individual bail determinations, whether in Criminal Court or in Superior Court," Al Baker, spokesman for the state Office of Court Administration, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. 

"It is important to note, however, that the vast majority of bail decisions turn on the court's discretionary weighing of a broad range of factors in order to make an individualized assessment of the defendant's risk of flight to avoid prosecution. That assessment involves due consideration of information and arguments presented by the prosecutor and defense counsel, as well as other materials submitted to the court."

Neilly is charged with five counts of felony robbery and is scheduled to return to court on Oct. 1, according to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital. 

Neilly's attorney did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.