{"id":138997,"date":"2026-02-19T18:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/138997\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:16:06","slug":"home-invaders-steal-over-100k-in-jewelry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/138997\/","title":{"rendered":"Home invaders steal over $100k in jewelry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAST NEW YORK \u2013 THREE ROBBERS POSING as house cleaners robbed an East New York couple of over $100,000 in jewelry last week, police said.<\/p>\n<p>At around 9:27 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 13, an unidentified woman knocked on the door of the home of a man, 31, and woman, 30, at Vandalia and Fountain avenues, claiming to represent a cleaning agency. As the residents opened the door, the woman, along with two other men,\u00a0 displayed firearms and forced their way inside. They then entered a bedroom and stole jewelry estimated to be worth $118,000, along with a purse, wallets and credit cards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The thieves fled south on Fountain Avenue. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The female robber was last seen wearing a black jacket, a white T-shirt, black pants, a black hat and black sneakers. The second robber, a man, was last seen wearing a dark-colored jacket and a dark-colored hat. The third, also a man, was last seen wearing a multicolored blue sweatshirt, dark-colored pants and black sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST NEW YORK \u2013 THREE ROBBERS POSING as house cleaners robbed an East New York couple of over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3302,303,10778,9,24,63,122,124,123,15863],"class_list":{"0":"post-138997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-home-invasion","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news","17":"tag-wanted-poster"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}