ST. LUCIE COUNTY — Old habits die hard? You can’t teach an old dog new tricks?

Something like that.

According to the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office, a man arrested Thursday by Port St. Lucie police in connection with grand theft was taken to the St. Lucie County Jail.

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Sheriff’s officials say that man was Michael Casey Lewis, 37, of Stuart. Lewis bonded out of jail in the 900 block of North Rock Road west of Fort Pierce and was released.

“After being released, deputies in the parking lot of the jail observed Lewis pulling car door handles and learned he had just burglarized several cars right there at the jail,” the Sheriff’s Office stated.

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Lewis wound up being “re-booked” at the jail on additional burglary charges and released again with a bond of $11,250.

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