A 33-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with burglarizing two synagogues in the Village of Monticello just days apart, according to police and News 12 Westchester.<\/p>\n
The woman faces two counts of third-degree burglary following an investigation into break-ins at synagogues located at the Pine Knoll Bungalow colony and 70 Wood Avenue.<\/p>\n
Police were called to the Pine Knoll Bungalow colony, at 198 Forestburgh Road, at approximately 2:00 a.m. Thursday after receiving a report of a burglary in progress. Surveillance footage showed two individuals entering the synagogue and moving around the property.<\/p>\n
Officers soon encountered the suspects, prompting a foot chase. The 33-year-old woman was ultimately found hiding beneath a building and arrested, while the second suspect managed to evade police.<\/p>\n
Investigators subsequently reviewed surveillance footage from the burglary at 70 Wood Avenue, which occurred two days earlier. According to authorities, the footage connected the 33-year-old to that break-in as well.<\/p>\n
She was arraigned and released on her own recognizance. Police continue to search for the other person allegedly involved in the burglaries.<\/p>\n
The arrests come amid an increase in reported hate crimes in New York City. NYPD statistics<\/a> released last week showed 425 hate crimes during the first eight months of 2026, compared with 367 during the same period a year earlier, representing a 15.8 percent increase.<\/p>\n Antisemitic incidents accounted for much of the overall rise, with antisemitic hate crimes increasing eight percent year over year and representing the majority of hate crimes recorded in the city.<\/p>\n At the same time, the NYPD reported that overall crime declined, including a six percent decrease in major crimes such as murder.<\/p>\n Several recent incidents have highlighted concerns over antisemitism. Last month, a man attacked<\/a> Manhattan’s Central Synagogue during Shabbat services, injuring a worshipper and causing property damage.<\/p>\n In August, six local youths allegedly attacked a haredi man<\/a> in Borough Park and threw eggs at him. A Jewish man was also stabbed outside a synagogue<\/a> in July during Tisha B’Av.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 33-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with burglarizing two synagogues in the Village of Monticello just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3862,9,11,10,26120],"class_list":["post-339749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-antisemitism","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-synagogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339749","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=339749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}