Saturday, April 16, 2016

One woman may be cause for Glen Oaks burglary spike


From CBS 2:

Police have connected 16 burglaries, all following the same pattern in the 105 Precinct, since January. With the help of surveillance photos they have an idea of who they are looking for.

Police say the woman targets homes, typically enters through a window, or unlocked back door, and grabs cash and small valuable items like jewelry.

Neighbors believe there may be a common tie.

“As per Indian culture people keep a lot of gold in their house in case of an emergency,” Eldo Varkey said, “The crooks know that they have money and gold in their house.”

Cops can’t confirm that the thefts were racially motivated, but they do know that the suspect has been driving around in a van.

8 comments:

JQ LLC said...

Going by the cultural aspect, it's likely the woman is Indian too,

JQ LLC said...

Disregard my comment, I didn't see the video. Bad flash player

Anonymous said...

Glad to see they threw the race card in.mom always said people that drive vans are racist.

Anonymous said...

Do we need to call the crime racially motivated just because the victims are the same ethnicity? The crimes aren't being committed because of their skin color (race), but because culturally, they like leaving valuables around, making them an easy target. I'd say the valuables are the target, not the owners of said valuables.

Anonymous said...

She looks Amish to me.

Anonymous said...

"Police say the woman targets homes, typically enters through a window, or unlocked back door"

Lock your damn doors then!

Anonymous said...

do these backward animals really think that if something bad were to happen, they'd really be able to trade for food and supplies with shiny bits of metal? Even if there was just an economic collapse and not a full-on social breakdown, gold doesn't automatically become more valuable.

mediawatcher said...

Backward animal? Look in a mirror.