{"id":20947,"date":"2025-10-29T08:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20947\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T08:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:46:13","slug":"burglar-breaks-into-two-stores-within-six-minutes-at-little-neck-shopping-center-nypd-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20947\/","title":{"rendered":"Burglar breaks into two stores within six minutes at Little Neck shopping center: NYPD \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/burglar-breaks-into-stores-little-neck01.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Cops are looking for this suspect who allegedly broke into two business within six minutes at a Little Neck shopping center along Northern Boulevard.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Cops are looking for this suspect who allegedly broke into two business within six minutes at a Little Neck shopping center along Northern Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of the NYPD<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Police from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/bureaus\/patrol\/precincts\/111th-precinct.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">111th Precinct<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/bayside\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayside<\/a> are looking for a burglar who targeted businesses at a <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/little-neck\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Little Neck<\/a> shopping center during the early morning of Friday, Oct. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the suspect allegedly broke into a commercial establishment at 248-25 Northern Blvd. at 1 a.m. by forcibly breaking the front door. Once inside, he removed an unknown amount of cash from the register and fled the store.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately six minutes later, he broke into a second business by forcibly breaking the front door and removing $812 in cash from the register before driving off in a gray sedan traveling northbound on 249th Street toward Depew Avenue, police said.<\/p>\n<p>There were no reported injuries at either store.\n<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD released surveillance images that show the suspect inside the second business and then driving out of the parking lot. He is described as having a light complexion and approximately 5 feet 7 inches in height. He wore a black jacket, a light-colored T-shirt, light-colored pants and dark-colored shoes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-588517\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/burglar-breaks-into-stores-little-neck02.jpg\" alt=\"The suspect was last seen driving off in a gray sedan, northbound on 249th Street, police said.\" width=\"343\" height=\"487\"\/>The suspect was last seen driving off in a gray sedan, northbound on 249th Street, police said.Courtesy of the NYPD<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding these burglaries is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at <a href=\"http:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a> or on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>Through Oct. 26, the 111th Precinct has reported 256 burglaries so far in 2025, four more than the 252 reported at the same point last year, an increase of 1.6%, according to the most recent CompStat report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops are looking for this suspect who allegedly broke into two business within six minutes at a Little&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[13986,10394,212,13987,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-20947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-111th-precinct","9":"tag-burglaries","10":"tag-burglary","11":"tag-little-neck-burglaries","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-queens","16":"tag-queens-headlines","17":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20947","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=20947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}