Crime & Safety

Downtown Hoboken Cleaners Burglarized Overnight

A lockbox with cash was taken.

When the owner of MVP Cleaners opened the store on Wednesday morning at 7 a.m., he was met by an unwelcome surprise.

The cleaners — located at First and Jackson Streets — had been burglarized overnight, police said.

Somebody had made their way into the store and took a lock box with $160 — $100 in bills and $60 in rolled coins — police said.

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The front door was vandalized, police said. It was unclear if any clothing was taken from the store.

There's a surveillance system that might reveal who took the money, police said, but no arrests had been made yet.

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