A clumsy crook caught on camera falling out a Queens woman’s window during a failed burglary attempt is wanted for a string of similar rear-window robberies, police said.

Cops on Thursday released surveillance video of the foiled Oct. 16 crime in Astoria.

The black-and-white footage shows the suspect — wearing a hoodie and baseball cap — enter the building near Ditmars Blvd. and Crescent St. through a fenced backyard around 5:30 a.m. and climb up to an apartment window.

A 36-year-old woman sleeping inside awoke to see the suspect and yelled out, police said.

Video shows the would-be robber falling out the window and crashing onto a bicycle before running away.

The suspect struck again days later, entering through an unlocked rear window of a three-story building near Ditmars Blvd. and 35th St. sometime between Oct. 19 and 21, cops said.

He swiped an iPad Mini from a 29-year-old woman’s apartment and ran off. No one was home at the time, police said.

The crook showed up again between Nov. 2 and 3, slipping into a 32-year-old man’s empty home near 41 St. and 23 Ave. through the back window and stealing two watches and roughly $6,000 in cash, cops said.

On Nov. 4, sometime between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m., the suspect stole a bracelet, four rings and about $2,000 in cash from an 87-year-old woman’s empty apartment near 38 St. and 21 Ave.

The bespectacled burglar is still on the loose. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.

Source - https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-video-burglar-fall-20201112-ao2i7lux55aebj2x2nk6fr3in4-story.html

An alleged serial robber’s latest heist was foiled early Saturday by the NYPD’s Special Ops team — which caught the dramatic rooftop-arrest on a night-vision cam attached to a police helicopter, cops said.

Police were called to 756 Allerton Ave. in the Bronx around 4:30 a.m. after the perp set off an alarm system for one of the jewelry stores located inside the building, police said.

There, they found Francisco Barrera, 31, on the roof, and called in the department’s Emergency Service Unit to come retrieve him, according to police.

Video of the early-morning arrest taken from the sky shows Barrera crouching on the roof as two cops approach with a ladder. One of them appears to gesture toward Barrera like he’s giving him an order.

Barrera then slowly walks to the edge of the roof with his arms up, as four more cops creep into the frame, with their hands at their waistband holsters.

Barrera is then surrounded by the officers as he descends the ladder, and the video cuts off.

“While you were sleeping, #Aviation pilots once again led ESU members to a location in the @NYPD49Pct where a perp wanted for an attempted Burglary of a jewelry store was hiding,” the department’s Special Ops team Tweeted.

His rap sheet street dates to at least 2009, cops said.

Source - https://nypost.com/2020/12/12/nypd-captures-suspected-serial-burglar-on-jewelry-store-roof/

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The NYPD is looking for a person they say is connected to a string of burglaries in Brooklyn in which a suspect broke into apartments through unsecured windows and stole more than $30,000 worth of property.

At least seven incidents were reported since Oct. 2.

One of the most expensive burglaries happened at an apartment near West 3rd Street and Avenue U around 3 p.m. on Oct. 7. According to police, the suspect got away with cash, jewelry and other property worth about $13,000.

A suspect in a similar break-in stole jewelry and other property worth about $10,300 from an apartment near Ocean View Avenue and West End Avenue South around 7:30 a.m. on Nov. 14.

Police are looking for a man spotted on camera near an apartment in Brooklyn shortly before it was reportedly burglarized on Nov. 14, 2020. (credit: NYPD)

In an incident on Oct. 28, police said the suspect got into an apartment near Avenue V and East 4th Street around 12:30 p.m., but fled before taking anything when a 24-year-old woman who lived there got home. Police said he escaped through the window.

Police released pictures taken before the Nov. 14 incident of the person they are looking for. They believe he is 40 to 50 years old.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also submit a tip via their website or on Twitter, @NYPDTips. All calls are kept confidential.

Source - https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/11/29/brooklyn-burglaries-3/

A pack of thieves has spent the last eight days roaming Manhattan and breaking into restaurants, bars and dry cleaners — stealing thousands of dollars in cash and clothing, the NYPD said Wednesday.

Cops released surveillance photos of seven males believed to be in their teens to twenties who have allegedly been committing the burglaries by breaking through the businesses’ front doors. The crimes occurred between Monday, Sept. 14 and Tuesday, Sept. 22.

“While inside, the individuals removed assorted amounts of currency from the cash registers totaling approximately $10,000,” cops said. “In addition, they removed assorted clothing valued at approximately $5,000 and caused $5,000 in property damage.”

While most of the jobs netted only a few hundred dollars at a time, the crew struck gold at a Midtown dry cleaner.

The burglars grabbed about $6,000 in clothing, including Moncler jackets and Etro sweaters, which can both cost thousands of dollars apiece, at King Garment Care on Sixth Avenue, a police source said. They only got $200 from the register at The Happiest Hour bar on 10th Street in the West Village, the source said.

Surveillance photographs of the crooks were obtained from an incident that occurred around 4 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 21, at Green Apple Cleaners at 119 Greenwich Ave.

Anyone with information regarding the crimes 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 WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or on Twitter @NYPDTips.

Source - https://nypost.com/2020/09/23/manhattan-thieves-steal-thousands-on-eight-day-spree/