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A 56-year-old man faces 58 charges for allegedly stealing nearly $40,000 worth of booze from LCBO stores in Toronto on dozens of occasions.

Toronto Police say officers responded to a call for a theft at a liquor store in a plaza at The Queensway and High St. — just east of Park Lawn Rd. in south Etobicoke — around 2:20 p.m. on April 8.

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“It is alleged that a man entered the liquor store and selected an item,” Const. David Hopkinson said Thursday, adding the man then allegedly “left the store making no attempt to pay.”

Responding officers arrested the suspect, who was on site when an employee at the LCBO store called 911.

Investigators now allege the same man is responsible for a series of previous LCBO thefts.

“The thefts represent $38,300 in stolen products,” Hopkinson said.

Janusz Domagala, of Toronto, is charged with 56 counts of theft under $5,000, one count of failure to comply with a probation order and one count of failure to comply with a recognizance order.