Crime & Safety
Bed-Stuy Burglar Hauls Computers And Checks Away In Shopping Cart, Police Say
The suspect used his cart to steal computers and checks from a real estate office on Tompkins Avenue earlier this month.
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN — Police are looking for the man who broke into a Brooklyn realty company with a shopping cart, which he filled with computers and checks then carted away.
The suspect pushed his shopping cart into the real estate offices at 188 Tompkins Ave. around 1:20 a.m. on Wednesday, July 12, police said.
He then loaded four computers, three computer screens, one scanner and an unknown number of deposited checks into his cart and fled, police said.
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Surveillance cameras caught images of the suspect, whom police describe as a man in his twenties wearing a white t-shirt, white shorts, black sneakers and a black baseball hat.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact police.
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