Police from the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood are looking for a burglar who stole property and cash from an employee locker room at a warehouse in Glendale that is home to the Finback Brewery factory and other businesses on the night of Thursday, July 18.
The perpetrator entered the building at 76-01 77th Ave., near Edsall Avenue and the Long Island Rail Road tracks, just before 8 p.m. and proceeded to remove more than $1,340 in cash, a watch worth $140 and a wallet containing debit cards that belonged to one of the workers, according to an NYPD spokeswoman. The unidentified man fled the location on foot westbound on Edsall Avenue toward Cooper Avenue.
The NYPD released surveillance images that showed the suspect walking through the employee-only area and described him as having a light complexion, approximately six feet tall with a slim build and tattoos on his right arm and left hand. He was wearing a dark blue New York Yankees baseball cap, white-rimmed sunglasses, a white T-shirt, gray shorts, a black fanny pack and white and blue sneakers.
A reward of up to $3,500 is being offered for information that leads to his arrest.
Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, or on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are kept confidential.
Through July 21, the 104th Precinct has reported 114 burglaries so far in 2024, 14 more than the 100 reported at the same point last year, an increase of 14%, according to the most recent CompStat report.
