Better watch your gym socks! Across the city at least 41 thieves have been cleaning out health club lockers, where security cameras dare not film. Over the holidays there was a marked increase in gym locker break-ins, after which the NYPD released a poster bearing the faces of the suspected thieves. At least one of them has a gym membership (others buy day passes with stolen credit cards), and they’re expert lock-pickers, reports the NY Post. One woman who was caught demonstrated her ability to break open ten lockers in three minutes. Hardest hit have been NYC’s Equinox and NYSC franchises. In addition to cash and cards, "they go for high-end items like Rolexes, and they work all over town," a police source said. more ›

A parolee was arrested for robbing a number of gyms last year. The Staten Island Advance says Murray Bradford was sentenced to 3 1/2 to seven years in prison for robbing gyms on S.I. as well as in Manhattan and Queens, "picking lockers clean of at least $20,000." Bradford joined a New York Sports Club in the Bronx and used the membership to access gyms all around the city. He "allegedly pried open the lockers and took cash and credit cards, before hooking up with fellow Bronxite Angel Nieves, 32, who drove Bradford to the nearest CVS store or Best Buy to spend the loot." One purchase, courtesy of a credit card stolen from the NYSC club in the Travis section of Staten Island was a $3,700 flat screen TV. Gym thefts are familiar to Bradford: The Advance says his "thick rap sheet dates to 1979, when he was convicted of breaking into a locker at a Jack LaLanne gym in the Bronx" and the Daily News noted last year that Bradford had served a sentence for gym robberies before this latest round. more ›