Police are seeking a man who they believe is responsible for 15 burglaries in Soho since September: "Police say he typically enters through the window, either climbing down from the rooftop or using the fire escape." And sometimes apartment dwellers make it easy for him by having unlocked windows. more ›

If you haven't taken your air conditioner in yet (really? Have you noticed it is January?) the NYPD has a good reason for you to do so ASAP. Especially if you live in Hell's Kitchen. According to the police a burglar has been breaking into apartments in the area by pushing in air conditioners and crawling through windows. more ›

When 50-year-old ex-con Luis Torres was busted for allegedly committing a string of burglaries in fancy Manhattan neighborhoods, police say they found over 100 keys to other apartments in his crib. 100 keys! Now they're going through and trying to figure out how many other places he may have robbed, and the Daily News reports that cops also found bent credit cards, a "treasure trove" of jewelry, and other electronic devices in his home. more ›

Police are on the hunt for a clever burglar who has been targeting Harlem work sites in order to get access to commercial spaces. In at least 15 incidents since November 11 the NYPD says the bandit has broken holes into walls and rooftops of construction sites in Harlem in order to get access to commercials spaces. more ›

A 23-year-old Long Island man being investigated for a burglary was shot to death by police yesterday after he charged officers with a foot-long knife. Kurt Doerbecker was involved in a standoff with police when he refused to exit his parent’s waterfront home in Point Lookout to speak to them. He was shot several times after he advanced on an officer "in a threatening manner" and refused an order to drop the knife. But Doerbecker's family are upset with cops who they say were "overly agressive." “There were 60 cops and one young man. They shot him dead. He was running away from them," said David, Doerbecker’s older brother. more ›

The Staten Island ninja, he was not. A would-be burglar on the Upper East Side fell to his death a little after 10 a.m. this morning after being spotted trying to break into a fifth-floor apartment on East 91st Street. "He tried to come in through the terrace, but my neighbor shut the door and called the police," fifth-floor tenant Tiffany Spencer, 28, told DNAinfo. "I guess he ran and somehow fell." more ›

And this week in dumb criminal tricks we present you with the story of 40-year-old Gus Bougas of Queens. Bougas was arrested yesterday on the East Side near the Queensboro Bridge after being caught inside of a candy store he had just robbed a half-hour before. Maybe he forgot his wallet? more ›

As if the coming bedbugpocalypse wasn't worrying enough, now we have this to deal with? Police are seeking a man suspected of burglarizing at least five Brooklyn apartments. His MO? He poses as a bedbug exterminator sent by the co-op who will need a few hours to fumigate. After the apartment dwellers leave he does what any burglar would do and ransacks the place. more ›

Police are looking for a brazen man who attempted to break into a New Dorp home twice in one afternoon. The woman who lives in the house received a call from her children around 11 a.m. on Friday, saying they heard strange footsteps inside the house. An alarm rang and scared him off, but he returned just a half an hour later. more ›

After numerous reports of shoplifting at the popular grocery store, cops from the 76th Precinct have begun posing as shoppers in the Court Street Trader Joe's to catch the thieves. But last week they finally caught their first purse snatcher. The Brooklyn Paper reports cops caught a man stealing a woman's purse out of her cart—unaware that the innocent looking shopper was really a cop, who had radioed a description of the suspect to cops waiting outside. “We have to wait for him to leave the store,” said Capt. Kenneth Corey. “Otherwise, he could say, ‘I was just going to return it to the cashier.’ ” more ›

It's no surprise that the stymied burglar who blew his brains out with a Beretta in Marine Park Monday evening was on parole and has a lengthy rap sheet. 47-year-old Robert Rementaria's most notorious run-in with the law (at least until yesterday) occurred in 1993, when he abducted and almost killed an off-duty Brooklyn narcotics cop, who managed to turn the tables on Rementaria and kill his accomplice. more ›

Police have arrested a 20-year-old found with a ceremonial chalice from St. Helen’s church in Queens. Theodore Kurplewski was picked up at his home, just a few blocks from the holy house, and charged with burglary, possession of stolen property, and criminal mischief, reports the Post. A month ago two chalices—together worth $11,000—went missing from the church. One, worth $10,000 has now been recovered. Rev. Robert Keighron noted that the thief was unlikely to get much for the gold cup since his name was carved in the bottom of it. “The value to [the robbers], I don’t understand,” he told the Queens Courier. “It would seem very hard to sell.” more ›

A thief ransacked a school for autistic children in Staten Island and stole laptops, video games, electronics—as well as a pet hamster, a sock monkey, and a set of rubber ducks. Students at the Eden II School for Children with Autism are shaken, according to executive director Joanne Gerenser, who said kids had made missing posters for the sock monkey and the ducks. "It just felt personal," she said. "That hamster was of no monetary value to anybody but the kids ... I felt that it was really malicious." more ›

When you're robbing apartments on the Upper East Side and the lady of the house catches you in the act, the last thing you expect is for her to play the hero and overpower you. But that was the embarrassing result of ex-con Clarence Cooper's alleged break-in at the East 78th Street apartment of Christine Anderson, a 46-year-old sales manager. When Anderson returned from grocery shopping at 8:50 a.m. Sunday morning to find Cooper rummaging through her first-floor apartment, she went postal, yelling, "What the f- - - are you doing in my apartment?" She tells the Post, "My gut instinct was to defend my home and stick up for myself." After Cooper shoved her aside and ran out, she chased him into the lobby, jumped on his back and tackled him to the ground! That's just how uptown girls roll. Through Cooper managed to break free, a neighbor called 911 and police soon picked him up. more ›

The Lower Manhattan Jack Spade store has been burgled multiple times this year, and as they say: three's a trend. In that vein, Men's Vogue reports that the store has now decided to celebrate their thief, who has returned three times to lift the perfect accessories for his crime (a little over $1K in merchandise). "Smitten by this criminal's dedication and affinity for their products they have created a comic book to commemorate his adventures," Breaking and Entering is based off the surveillance video and available at their Greene Street location, which has been "decorated in homage to their nocturnal visitor." more ›

An Upper East Side super does more than just keep things running smoothly at the Park Ave. building where he works, he's a crimefighter. Veteran building superintendent Jorge Ortiz has worked as a superintendent for 21 years, since he was 18 years old. Sharp eyes and experience have resulted in Ortiz apprehending a number of criminals over the year. That and a bit of courage. more ›