NEW YORK — A man who is accused of burglarizing a local church has been arrested after a standoff with police in New York City.
The Rochester Borough Police Department said Arthur Jack, 55, of Rochester, was taken into custody by the NYPD early Wednesday morning.
Investigators said his arrest came after a brief standoff along subway tracks.
He was identified as a suspect in a burglary that happened at Grace Lutheran Church on Sunday.
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Church leaders said he stole offerings for a soup dinner and rummaged through gift donations that were meant to be donated to the The Salvation Army and Glade Run.
We’re told Jack entered a “commercial establishment” on Wednesday and stole about $285 from a locked donation box.
The New York Post reported that Jack took that money from the Congregation Shaarei Zion of Bobov.
According to the NYPD, community members then chased Jack to the D-Line train station in Brooklyn where he jumped onto the tracks.
Report say this is not the first time Jack has been in trouble in New York City. They said he broke into a Flatbush synagogue and stole a bottle of vodka and scotch in 2012. The New York Post added that Jack had 17 previous arrests and spent 10 years in a correctional institute in New York for other burglaries. He was released in 2023.
He will be extradited back to Beaver County.
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