Chicago Criminal Who Eats Jails

Chicago serial criminal who EATS jails is back in prison for stealing Google engineer's Maserati while victim did yoga: Has undergone $2m in surgery to remove objects he's devoured

• Lamont Cathey, 25, has been sentenced to 2.5 years in prison after pleading guilty to a string of burglaries in 2021 
• During one of his crimes, Cathey, who has 13 felonies, stole a Google engineer's expensive luxury car after stealing his keys from the locker room 
• Cathey made a name for himself in Cook County Jail for swallowing metal objects, including nails and screws, racking up $2million in medical bills  

A serial criminal from Chicago who is known for eating jails has landed back in prison for stealing a Google engineer's Maserati while the victim did yoga. 

Lamont Cathey, 25, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to burglary, aiding or abetting the possession of a stolen motor vehicle, and two counts of identity theft. 

During one of his crimes, Cathey, who has 13 felonies, stole a Google engineer's expensive luxury car from a yoga studio parking lot after breaking into the man's locker and stealing the keys in 2021. 

When the engineer returned to his locker after his workout, he noticed his keys, wallet, and phone missing and that his car was no longer in the parking lot. Surveillance footage caught Cathey leaving in the Maserati, where he took off toward a Target store to spend $2,399 on two iPads using the victim's credit cards. 

Lamont Cathey, 25, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to a string of burglaries in 2021

Cathey made a name for himself in Cook County Jail for swallowing metal objects, including nails and screws, racking up $2million  in medical bills

A few days later, he would break into another locker at a different yoga studio and steal $100 from a different man, as well as, a phone and credit cards. He used the man's cards to buy $2,400 worth of items at Best Buy and $1,100 at Target, according to CWB Chicago. 

Cathey failed to show up to his bail hearing due to being in the hospital to be treated for 'foreign body ingestion,' the outlet reported. 

During his many stints behind bars, Cathey has reportedly cost taxpayers at least $2million in medical bills by literally eating pieces of the facilities. 

By 2016, the career criminal had more than 20 surgeries related to swallowing metal, including screws and nails. 

Cathey began swallowing metal objects after a plea deal that was supposed to let him attend a boot camp fell through in 2014. He's eaten a thumbtack, strips of leather and even parts of a medical device he had dismantled while in jail. 

During one of his crimes, Cathey, who has 13 felonies, stole a Google engineer's expensive luxury car from a yoga studio parking lot after breaking into the man's locker and stealing the keys in 2021

Cathey has been in and out of Cook County Jail (pictured) for years and began swallowing metal after a plea deal fell through in 2014

'He's literally eating the jail,' Cook County Jail's then-executive director, Cara Smith said at the time. 'It's been a crushingly sad and very frustrating case.'

Prior to his imprisonment, Cathey had been enrolled in an alternative charter high school, where basketball coaches called the 6-foot-8 Cathey 'Big Boy'.

His lawyers and mother said at the time that he urgently needs psychiatric treatment. 

Cathey had been in trouble in his teenage years. He was arrested more than a dozen times as a juvenile, though none of those arrests led to convictions. 

Cathey will be eligible for parole on May 14, 2024.