{"id":20605,"date":"2025-10-29T00:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20605\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:27:08","slug":"thieves-in-reflector-vests-steal-3-2m-from-nyc-home-in-brazen-burglary-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20605\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves in reflector vests steal $3.2M from NYC home in brazen burglary: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trio of brazen burglars sporting construction vests busted <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/19\/us-news\/armed-gang-terrorizes-queens-while-swiping-mopeds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">into a Queens<\/a> home in broad daylight and made off with $3.2 million \u2014 with cops hoping surveillance footage can help nab the crooks.<\/p>\n<p>The trio pulled up outside the home at 160th Street and 84th Drive in a blue Hyundai Elantra around 2:20 p.m. on Thursday, with the two vest-wearing thieves breaking in through a back door while the getaway driver, wearing a white hoodie, backed up into the driveway and waited, the images show.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they grabbed a safe and jewelry valued at more than $3 million and stashed it in the car, with all three then speeding away \u2014 and are still on the loose. <\/p>\n<p>The thieves made of with $3.2 million, according to the NYPD. DCPI<\/p>\n<p>The two crooks who busted into the house were described as wearing black sweatshirts, black pants, black and grey sneakers, white construction hats, black backpacks and each donned a \u201cneon construction jacket,\u201d according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>The driver wore black pants, grey sneakers and black gloves, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Police said that the thieves are still on the loose. DCPI<\/p>\n<p>The driver wore black pants, grey sneakers and black gloves, police said. DCPI<\/p>\n<p>No one was home at the house at the time and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unknown why the thieves targeted the home and why there was so much valuable loot inside.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone with information about the culprits to call the NYPD Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS or at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trio of brazen burglars sporting construction vests busted into a Queens home in broad daylight and made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10394,303,57,9,56,63,65,64,104,122,797,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-20605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-burglaries","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-police","17":"tag-queens","18":"tag-theft","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20605","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=20605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}