Former teacher charged with stealing pricey food from NYC trucks NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A former New York teacher made a tidy living pinching gourmet food from restaurant delivery trucks, a friend said after his arrest. Charles Ross was arrested this week for allegedly stealing steaks, lobster, salmon and boxes of shrimp off trucks making the rounds at high-end Manhattan restaurants. A person who answered Ross' cellphone Friday told the New York Post Ross did quite well selling the hot items to other restaurant. "A couple thousand (dollars) a week," the acquaintance estimated. "He knows a lot about life and business and school and math," the friend said, adding the onetime teacher "just fell off." Police told the Post Ross had reinvented himself as a career criminal with three separate stretches in prison for robbery dating back to 1975. Ross was nabbed Monday while allegedly wheeling a handcart loaded with purloined treats on West 47th St. He was jailed on $20,000 bond, sources told the Post.