Local Cops Nab
Burglary Suspects
By Charles Rogers

According to officials of the 69th Precinct Detective Squad, at least six instances of burglaries in the local area within the past few months have been solved after four youths were recently nabbed "practically in the act," they said.

Detective Brunel Bienvenu said that, although the suspects — two who are 20 years old, one 15-year-old and a 17-year-old — were arrested January 4th, their connection to a number of the burglaries "took a little time." The suspects’ names were not released pending the ongoing investigation.

"We got good cooperation from the public in apprehending them," said Bienvenu. "A neighborhood resident said he saw two of them enter a house near his daughter’s apartment in the East 80s. He went around the back of the house and saw a youth coming out of a window. He tried to grab the youth and finally he called 911 and the precinct’s task force officers on patrol responded immediately and caught the four of them."

Bienvenu said he interrogated the suspects and, through a lineup and various means of identifying articles connected to the burglaries, all four were charged with burglary.

Detective Sergeant Richard Mulvaney said the cooperation of community residents "helped considerably" in cracking the cases and Captain Jeannine Jennette, commander of the local precinct, said, "Too often people ignore just making a phone call to alert us to a possible crime being committed. We can always use the help of the public so we can protect them better."