RSS 2.0 FeedThursday, January 5, 2012, Cover Stories, Merrick Life
Deception burglaries are hitting the neighborhood
Police warn the elderly and seek your help in finding perpetrators.
Be warned of incidents happening in your neighborhood.
A 91-year-old woman was in her home on Maple Avenue, Bellmore, at 1 p.m. last week when a woman knocked on her door and asked to speak to her regarding yard work, Nassau police reported.
According to First Squad detectives, the victim accompanied the suspect into her yard for approximately 10 minutes. When the owner returned inside her home she realized that an unknown amount of cash, various credit cards and jewelry had been taken.
The suspect is described as light skinned, possibly Hispanic, with large bulging eyes in her 20s. The suspect was speaking on a Bluetooth earpiece to an unknown person.
Merrick Life also received a call this week from a reader on Saw Mill Road in North Bellmore reporting that she was a victim of the deception-type burglaries taking place in the area.
The caller said she was victimized in the afternoon last week when a woman came to the door and asked to use the bathroom. The homeowner escorted the woman to the bathroom and out of the home when she was done. It was after the visit that she realized she had been robbed of her jewelry box.
First Squad detectives are investigating the woman’s claim but do not see a connection – based on the description of the perpetrator and the other events of burglaries – at this time.
In related reports, a woman attempted to lure a Yale Place, Merrick, resident out of the home last week as well.
A female fitting the same description attempted an identical plot in Massapequa Park also on the same day.
According to county detectives, the woman, described as Hispanic or possibly light-skinned black, in her 20s, medium build, approximately 5 feet, 8 inches tall, wearing a knit hat, black jacket, blue jeans and black boots, appeared at the front door of an 81-year-old male victim’s Massapequa Park residence, saying 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, asked the victim to 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.
Detectives are requesting anyone with information regarding these crimes to contact the Nassau County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS (8477).
All calls are confidential and all callers will remain anonymous.
