Neat Crook Steals Cleaning Supplies

By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

January 25, 2023

BRONX - A crook made a clean getaway when he robbed thousands of dollars of cleaning materials from a Bronx building. 

At around 2:17 am on January 5, police say a man hopped over a fence in the rear of a commercial building at 1382 Shakespeare Avenue in Mount Eden. The suspect entered the building through a basement door. 

Cops released surveillance video which shows the suspect coming out of an elevator with boxes of cleaning chemicals worth $500. 

The crook came back an hour later and stole a cleaning machine. Cops say the machine is valued at around $2,500. 

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. 

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