The other day, we posted the video the NYPD circulated showing a purple-gloved man breaking into an apartment at 516. E. 11th St. ... Anyway, a piece in The New York Times today has the whole story... A quickie recap. A new tenant moved into this apartment in April. The superintendent had put in a new lock. Two months later, someone entered the apartment — no forced entry — and took some electronics. The tenant, "a college professor of technology," set up the surveillance camera.
Police have now charged a 24-year-old man who lives in Greenpoint with the burglaries. (The man has spent time in prison for home-invasion burglaries upstate.) It was not clear why the man had a key to the 11th Street apartment. He had never lived there, as far as anyone knew.
Anyway, interesting story. Right the whole thing here.
this throws off all my tv induced stereotypes of a burglar.
ReplyDeleteamericas nightmare the white burglar.
Here's how the Times described him:
ReplyDelete--He was young and well put together, with stylish eyeglass frames and a recent haircut. He wore cargo shorts and a Guinness T-shirt and purple gloves and Nikes and a backpack, and looked like a bike messenger or student or the sort of guy that shows up in the East Village in packs of 12 for happy hour and brunch.--
I guess the G was running that day...
ReplyDeleteCargo shorts! Evil! Woo!
ReplyDelete"If it was a disguise, it was inspired."
ReplyDeleteRather colorful commentary for the NYT.
Funny, but a reporter for the NYT rang our buzzer on Friday, saying that they were looking to interview the victim of a burglary in our building, on our floor, and we didn't have any idea what they were talking about. Seems it was at 516.... not us.
But I know "Jack" - hah! I will have to shame him for his security protocols.
Small correction: the superintendent had not put in a new lock, but one that had been previously installed in some other apartment (or maybe he mistakenly just put back the same lock, he isn't sure:
ReplyDeleteThe superintendent, who gave only his first name, Jack, said on Thursday that it was his custom, after a tenant moved out, to remove the lock and toss it in a box of similar locks, replacing it with another from the box. Had he, in April, removed the old lock and inadvertently put it right back in? He wasn’t sure anymore, he said. He did not recognize Mr. Pasciak.
The super never changed the lock. This goes on people. Careful.
ReplyDeleteIt always starts with a purple glove! The gateway accessory to burglary. This is why I've never trusted Prince.
ReplyDeleteHope he enjoys getting reamed in Rikers! Douche!
ReplyDeleteNotice this happened after NYPD reduced its stop and frisks 30%? Do you see the direct connection?
ReplyDelete@nygrump: By "this happened", do you mean the burglary or the arrest? (Less stop-and-frisk => more burglary or less stop-and-frisk means more arrests?)
ReplyDeleteI don't think that this guy would have been stopped and frisked anyway, he looks to clean cut for that.
Notice this happened after NYPD reduced its stop and frisks 30%? Do you see the direct connection?
ReplyDeleteYes, because people that look like this guy are the ones getting stopped and frisked.
Isn't that ironic, don't you think? A little too ironic, I really do think.
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