Cops: Man Swiped Video Games From Library

Police are looking for a man they say stole video games from the Newton Library.

On Monday, police responded to the Newton Library on Homer Street to take a report of a past larceny. On Sunday, Jan. 4, around 5 p.m., after closing time, a white male took various video games from the third floor desk of the audio visual department.

The man was captured on video in different areas of the library, but no footage of the actual theft exists, said police. Staff talked with him about the missing games, and he was captured on video hiding in the second floor elevator vestibule and talking on his cell phone. The man is also seen, on video, pulling a hooded sweatshirt over his head and walking up the stairs to the third floor AV department toward the desk.

“He was seen sneaking around the sensors to avoid detection system alarms,” said police, “and out the the library exit door.”

The suspect is in his 20s, about six feet tall, and in the video wore a red baseball hat, dark jacket, dark pants and white sneakers, carrying a backpack and a larger over-the-should-type canvas bag.

Anyone with information should call police.