To Be A Thief - or not. Ancestors in 52 Weeks

This year's challenge is 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks and is run by Amy Johnson Crow.

Topic Info:
The theme this week is "Thief." We don't always like to admit it, but sometimes our research uncovers people who have run afoul of the law. Have you found someone who didn't exactly have a clean record?

This is a very hard topic for me. Only because we really hadn't had a thief in the family. Yes, there had been many times people got arrested for drinking or drugs but not thievery.

The only thing we have close is my renegade great grandfather Apolonius Jagodzinski.

I call him renegade because he's one of my brick walls. I have basic paperwork on him from the time he came over on the ship and landed into Ellis Island. However, from there its spotty until the 1940s when the government wanted all aliens to register if they moved. And boy did he move all over New York and New Jersey according to his Alien forms! 

Apolonius' Alien Change of Address Card. Credit: USCIS

Another aspect of making it so hard to trace him was he started to change his names and went by various ones. However, when he died the obituary and his headstone were both in his correct name, so there is that.

Apolonius' Obituary giving
more background. Credit: As on image

Apolonius' and wife Bernice's headstones taken by great grandchild J. Fitzgerald in 2019.
Credit: J. Fitzgerald

Thief or not Thief?
Well this is where it's tricky and remember above I stated he's the closest thing to one. This is because in  New York he had to sign up using Alien Registration Form because he never followed through on his intention to become naturalized for some reason.

My great grandfather Apolonius Jagodzinski's Registration Form page 1. Credit: USCIS

My great grandfather Apolonius Jagodzinski's Registration Form page 2. Credit: USCIS

Anyhow, when he applied, he actually stated on the second page that he had been arrested, by mistake, and gave Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as the place. However, he gave no other information other than the charges had been dismissed.

This is a section of the above document from the same credited source. How you not remember something like this I wonder? 

I wonder how you can be arrested by mistake?? This still puzzles me?

Anyhow, I've looked all over the place and still haven't found any documentation on him being arrested.  This includes the newspapers, mug shots, and everything.