{"id":66011,"date":"2025-12-09T20:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/66011\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T20:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:11:13","slug":"new-york-burglary-takes-a-funny-turn-thanks-to-a-snow-shovel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/66011\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Burglary Takes a Funny Turn Thanks to a Snow Shovel"},"content":{"rendered":"

You never expect your quiet Sunday evening to involve a stranger, a shattered window, and a snow shovel. But that\u2019s exactly what happened to one Endicott homeowner who came face to face with a suspected burglar<\/a> just after getting home from work.<\/p>\n

Deputies say the man caught the intruder in the act and did what anybody might do when adrenaline kicks in, and winter tools are close by…he grabbed the shovel.<\/p>\n

Deputies Walked Into a Scene You Don\u2019t See Every Day<\/p>\n

When Broome County Sheriff\u2019s deputies showed up, they found 42-year-old Nicholas J. Sacco curled up on the ground<\/a> while the homeowner stood nearby with that now-famous shovel.<\/p>\n

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According to the Sheriff\u2019s Office, the homeowner had heard glass breaking, followed the noise to his porch, and found Sacco trying to force his way inside. A shove off the porch didn\u2019t stop him, so the homeowner reached for whatever he had handy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What the Homeowner Says Happened<\/p>\n

The homeowner told deputies he had barely walked through the door from work when he heard the first crash of glass somewhere close by. Moments later came a second crash, this time from his own porch. When he went to check, he found Sacco trying to break in through the kitchen door. He pushed him out, Sacco tried to come back in, and that\u2019s when the shovel came into play.<\/a><\/p>\n

EMS treated the homeowner for cuts on his arm, but he was able to keep Sacco at the scene until deputies arrived.<\/p>\n

And Then There Was the Place Next Door\u2026<\/p>\n

As if one break-in wasn\u2019t enough, deputies soon realized the neighboring property, a hair salon, had also been burglarized<\/a>. The timeline lined up a little too perfectly, and investigators connected Sacco to both incidents.<\/p>\n

The Charges Sacco Is Now Facing<\/p>\n

Following the investigation, Sacco was arrested and charged <\/a>with:
\u2022 Burglary in the 2nd Degree, Class C Felony
\u2022 Burglary in the 3rd Degree, Class D Felony
\u2022 Two counts of Criminal Mischief in the 3rd Degree, Class E Felonies<\/p>\n

Sacco was arraigned and taken to the Broome County Correctional Facility. The Union Volunteer Emergency Squad also assisted at the scene.<\/p>\n

\"WNBFSheriff Akshar\u2019s Takeaway<\/p>\n

Sheriff Fred Akshar summed it up with a pretty clear warning: breaking into someone\u2019s home is always a bad idea<\/a>, and sometimes you\u2019re going to run into a homeowner who isn\u2019t afraid to defend what\u2019s theirs, snow shovel and all.<\/p>\n

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Gallery Credit: Traci Taylor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You never expect your quiet Sunday evening to involve a stranger, a shattered window, and a snow shovel.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,12,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-66011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66011","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=66011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}