The plastic brace on the man's right foot is trailing straps, and there is a cane in his hand. He takes little steps, and his hip rolls each time he sets down his right foot. There is nothing furtive about the man, whose image was captured by a surveillance camera for a few seconds as he hobbled down a sunlit street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, one morning last month. So why are the police looking for him?
The answer is that he is thought to be a burglar, a job that calls for a certain amount of stealth. The footage, according to the police, shows him at 9:45 a.m. on May 24 moments before he entered a basement apartment through an open window.
While the man was inside the apartment, the woman who lived there returned home “and startled him,†the police said in a statement. “The suspect then escaped through the window he came in,†leaving empty-handed.
It was not immediately clear whether the injured foot was real or a ruse to deflect suspicion.
Anyone with information about the man is asked to contact Crime Stoppers.
