ROTTERDAM Couple face charges in burglaries Police: Stolen items hidden in grocery bags BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter
Perhaps it was a hunch, but the Schalmont school bus driver was immediately suspicious of the couple he spotted walking on Ford Avenue about 8:30 a.m. Thursday. The man and woman were wearing hooded sweatshirts and appeared to be casing the area. Aware of the recent spate of burglaries around the neighborhood, the bus driver decided to alert police. Officers later found Timothy and Amy Beblowski hauling bags of groceries on Delaware Avenue, several blocks from where they were initially spotted by the bus driver. The shopping bags might have seemed legitimate, since they were fi lled with food: cereal, steak, hot dogs, soda and cinnamon buns. But at the bottom of the sacks, investigators say they found other items one wouldn’t likely pick up at the market: a Wii console, controllers and a set of electric hair clippers. Police say they also found a backpack loaded with pilfered jewelry, and the couple was promptly arrested in a string of daylight burglaries in the neighborhood around their Myrtle Avenue home. “They had just left a house on Clyde Avenue a couple blocks away,” Rotterdam police Lt. Michael Brown said. The Beblowskis, both 35, were each charged with felony second-degree burglary, but investigators are expecting additional charges as they unravel the spree the couple allegedly perpetrated in an area of the town less than a mile from the Rotterdam Police Department on Princetown Road. Police began investigating the burglaries last week after three break-ins were reported in the neighborhood. In each case, the thieves used a screwdriver to pry open a back door of an unoccupied residence and steal various belongings. Another three burglaries occurred this week before the Beblowskis were apprehended. Brown said the couple cooperated with police and acknowledged stealing valuables they would later sell to a pawn shop at the Rotterdam Square mall. Both are suspected of having drug problems. “The neighborhood was defi nitely on edge since these burglaries had taken place,” he said. Once in custody, police said the Beblowskis admitted to the six break-ins and several others that occurred nearby during the fall. Brown said they acknowledged their involvement in a 6-monthold burglary of two vacant condominiums on Edgewood Avenue and Cobblestone Court, where appliances were stolen, as well as a theft from a home on 13th Street in Schenectady, where fi ve rifl es were taken. Some of the home owners allegedly burglarized by the couple weren’t surprised by their arrest. “Everybody in the neighborhood suspected them,” said one of the victims, who did not want to be identified. “It came as a surprise to no one.” Brown said investigators were able to recover all of the property stolen from Clyde Avenue. He said police are now working with the pawn shop to see what else — if anything — they can recover from the other burglarized homes. .........................................>>>>......................>>>>...........................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01102&AppName=1
The gold pawn shop in the Rotterdam Mall reminds a lot of people ...years ago...a gas station on Altamont ave. was the
place to pawn .......the mall business needs to be careful and more diligent.....money makes money in that world..
Thought that pawn shops had to take names/addresses/licenses specifically to nail down who pawned stolen property......yes? Does this also apply to jewelry stores, like the place at rotterdam square mall? Ya'd think it would.....yes?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Many pawn shops have cameras to record the transaction to aid police in finding the thieves that are pawning stolen items.
What about the jewelry store or places like the one at rotterdam square mall tho?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Car larcenies, home burglaries continue in Rotterdam neighborhoods Posted: Mar 14, 2012 1:41 PM EDT
ROTTERDAM, N.Y. - The Rotterdam Police Department says they are continuing their investigation into residential burglaries and car larcenies which have been occurring in certain targeted areas of town.
Police say the known incidents began occurring in the early morning hours of March 5th when there were reports of three residential burglaries, 16 vehicle larcenies and one stolen vehicle. Police say similar incidents are continuing, targeting the Coldbrook section of town as well as the western part of town including Adams Street, West Campell Road, and Currybush Road.
Since March 5th, there have been 11 more vehicle larcenies where anything from loose change to small electronics were taken, three cars have also been reported stolen from within driveways or in front of the residence, and at least three residential burglaries have been reported in which TV's or electronics were stolen.
Police have recovered two of the stolen vehicles in the City of Schenectady, but they are still looking for two others:
- A 2006 Dodge Caravan, silver in color, with NYS plate EJS-8982
- A 1995 Pontiac Bonneville, tan in color, with NYS plate EUV-7109
Police are reminding residents to lock their homes and keep the exterior well lit. Residents are also reminded to lock their cars and keep anything valuable out of site.
Anyone with information regarding the thefts is asked to call Rotterdam Police Detectives at 355-7397.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Logged
