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Woman Posing as Cleaning Lady Breaking into Apartments, Police Say

July 9, 2018 | 3:10 PM - Updated on June 5, 2022 | 11:29 PM
in CRIME, NEWS
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Police are looking for the woman pictured above in connection to a burglary and an attempted burglary in two Central Park West apartments.

Incident #1:

It was reported to police that on Monday, April 4, 2018 at approximately 1340 hours, in a residential building in the vicinity of Central Park West and West 97th Street, an unidentified female entered a 75-year-old male victim’s apartment through an unlocked door. As the victim returned to his apartment, he confronted the unidentified individual who claimed she was there as a cleaning service. The individual fled on foot in an unknown direction. The victim later discovered that an undetermined amount of money was missing.

Incident #2:

It was reported to police that on Sunday, June 10, 2018 at approximately 1620 hours, in a residential building in the vicinity of Central Park West and West 97th Street, an unidentified female entered a 32-year-old female victim’s apartment through an unlocked door while the victim was home. When confronted by the victim, the individual again claimed that she was there as a cleaning service and then fled on foot in an unknown direction. No property was removed.

The individual is described as a female White, approximately 28 to 35 years of age, approximately 5’4″, 120 to 130lbs, of slim build; with long dark hair and dark eyes. She was last seen wearing a white shirt, dark pants, and dark eyeglasses.

Anyone with information in regard to these incidents 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 Crime stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.

All calls are strictly confidential.

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your_neighbor
your_neighbor
6 years ago

The picture on the left looks like Park West Village – plenty of ways in and out of there.
Keep your doors locked if you want to keep your stuff.

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UWSHebrew
UWSHebrew
6 years ago

Excellent camera images. DOES NOT look “White”, but Asian or Hispanic.

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EricaC
EricaC
6 years ago
Reply to  UWSHebrew

It had to be you …

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Bruce E. Bernstein
Bruce E. Bernstein
6 years ago
Reply to  EricaC

I’m so glad Dannyboy said that, so i didn’t have to.

racist people usually ARE ignorant, and vice versa. there’s a very high statistical correlation, imho.

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EricaC
EricaC
6 years ago
Reply to  EricaC

To be clear, that comment was not referring to UWSWhite.

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Jay
Jay
6 years ago
Reply to  EricaC

Oh we knew, Erica 🙂

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UWSHebrew
UWSHebrew
6 years ago
Reply to  EricaC

To be clear, your animus is meaningless.

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EricaC
EricaC
6 years ago
Reply to  UWSHebrew

No animus – just noting a pattern. Which you continued later.

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dannyboy
dannyboy
6 years ago
Reply to  UWSHebrew

Erica C did a service by pointing out how you consistently identify criminals as non-white.

You even mix up ethnicity and race in your attempt to do so.

You are racist AND ignorant.

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UWSWhite
UWSWhite
6 years ago
Reply to  UWSHebrew

“Hispanic” is not a race, they can be white or Asian too, Black, etc.

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Harold
Harold
6 years ago

I think I’ve seen her a couple of weeks ago on CPW between 97 & 100, on the park side.
She looked Filipino to me.

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Jen
Jen
6 years ago

How did she get into the building?

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B.B.
B.B.
6 years ago
Reply to  Jen

Same way people have been getting into non doorman or attended lobby buildings for ages; wait for someone to enter or exit and just go through the door. That and or ring various buzzers/intercoms saying “delivery” or whatever until someone opens the door.

You’d be surprised at how many people then and even right now simply hold front doors open for *anyone*, including people they do not personally know to enter a building.

Females in particular (especially and older woman such as pictured) are seen as less threatening than men, so again people just let them in.

The modern service/delivery culture also means plenty of people are coming and going into buildings all day. People just wait and follow UPS, FedEx, Amazon, Fresh Direct, USPS, food delivery or whatever into a building and or wait for same to exit (see above).

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NotImpressed
NotImpressed
6 years ago

On the plus side, she does windows.

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Tim
Tim
6 years ago

As much as I love the WSR, are incidents that happened a month ago, and 3 months ago really “news” at this point?

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dannyboy
dannyboy
6 years ago

She’d have trouble getting into some UWS buildings:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/12/new-york-city-doormen-building-race-profiling

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Smithe
Smithe
6 years ago

Um, lock your doors?

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