RSS 2.0 FeedThursday, December 28, 2011, Cover Stories, Merrick Life
Deception burglary incidents
Be warned of incidents happening in the neighborhood.
A ninety-one year old female victim was at her home on Maple Avenue, Bellmore, at 1 p.m. on Monday, December 26, when a woman knocked on her door and asked to speak to her regarding yard work, according to First Squad detectives.
The victim accompanied the suspect into her yard for approximately ten minutes. When she returned inside her home she
realized that an unknown amount of cash, various credit cards and jewelry were missing. The suspect is described as light skinned, possibly Hispanic with large bulging eyes in her twenties. The suspect was speaking on a Bluetooth earpiece to an unknown person.
In related reports
A woman attempted to use a ruse to lure a Yale Place, Merrick resident out of the home on Tuesday, December 27.
A female fitting the same description attempted an identical plot in Massapequa Park also on the same day.
According to detectives, the woman, described as being Hispanic or possibly light-skinned black, in her twenties, medium build, approximately 5’8” tall, wearing a knit hat, black jacket, blue jeans and black boots, appeared at the front door of a eighty-one-year-old male victim’s Massapequa Park residence, stating that she had recently moved into the neighborhood and wanted to put up a fence that would border on the victim’s property.
The woman, while communicating on a two-way radio, connived in this way to have the victim exit his home and accompany her into the backyard of his residence.
While in the backyard with the woman, the victim became suspicious and went to go back inside his home. He then observed a man described as being tall and wearing a suit jacket, get into a grey or blue vehicle with out-of-state license plates, along with the woman. The vehicle fled from the vicinity eastbound on Lindbergh Street. The victim then notified the police and when they arrived it was determined that assorted jewelry had been taken from the bedrooms of the victim’s home.
Detectives are requesting anyone with information regarding these crimes to contact the Nassau County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS. All calls are confidential and all callers will remain anonymous.
