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Laundry Thieves Steal Clothes from Building



By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

December 22, 2022


BRONX - Police are looking for a pair of fashion conscious burglars who stole clothes right out of the dryers in a Bronx building near Yankee Stadium and whole heist was caught on video.


On December 3rd, two men snuck into the laundry room of an apartment building in the vicinity of Gerard Avenue and East 158th Street near Yankee Stadium.




Security video shows the men wandering around the room checking through laundry bins before removing clothes from a dryer.




Nothing else was taken.


In addition to the video, one resident snapped a cell phone photo of one of the suspects outside the building holding a basket of what looks like laundry supplies.




Anyone with information in regard to this incident 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 CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/

 or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 


All calls are strictly confidential.



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