The First Rule Of PR Is Never To Repeat The Negative . . . The Second Rule Is Never Let It Get Out That Before You Mugged Centenarians You Also Robbed Churches (We Hear Parole Boards Look Down On Such Behavior)

The guy who beat on and mugged a 101-year-old woman has been linked to a robbery at a church:

As if he didn’t have enough strikes against him in the book of life, the brute who allegedly beat and robbed two elderly Queens grandmothers is now accused of breaking into a church and stealing a poor box, police said yesterday.

Jack Rhodes, 45, broke into the All Nations Apostolic Tabernacle Church in Jamaica on Sept. 25, 2006, and kicked open several office doors before finding the aluminum box, police said.

“When you break into a church, that’s just plain wicked,” chided Pastor Devon Dawson, who said Rhodes probably found a small amount of money in the coin box — which the church’s youth group collected for missioners.

After breaking the poor box open, Rhodes tossed it away near the church, and police later found it.

A DNA test just revealed that Rhodes’ blood was on the box, police said.