Crime & Safety

Suspect At Large In String Of Whitestone Burglaries: Police

Police are looking for a man suspected of committing three burglaries in Whitestone since mid-January.

Police are looking for a man suspected of committing three burglaries in Whitestone since mid-January.
Police are looking for a man suspected of committing three burglaries in Whitestone since mid-January. (NYPD)

WHITESTONE, QUEENS — Police are looking for a man suspected of committing three burglaries in Whitestone since mid-January.

The unidentified burglar is responsible for break-ins at Ralph's Italian Ices on Clintonville Street and Gel Town and Solena Tanning on 14th Avenue, according to the police.

At Ralph's Italian Ices, the burglar got in by breaking the front door early the morning of Jan. 17 and stole a cash register and iPod, police said in a news release.

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The next morning, the same man broke the front door of Gel Town and took $200 from the cash register.

He struck again early on Feb. 13, this time nabbing $100 from the cash register at Solena Tanning.

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Anyone with information in regard to the identity of this individual is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

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