Crime & Safety

Police: Shoe Thief Nabbed at Sunrise Mall

Hempstead man accused in two incidents.

A Hempstead man was charged in connection a March robbery at the Westfield Sunrise Mall after he was busted for a simiar crime at the same mall, police said.

Bernard Coleman, 43, was nabbed after he was observed on surveillance cameras placing twenty-two pairs of shoes into a garbage bag and walking out of JC Penney, on Monday afternoon, cops said.

Security  held Coleman until police arrived. One of the officers who came to the scene recognized Coleman as fitting the description of a man wanted for a March 29 robbery at Payless shoes and after further investigation he was arrested for that crime as well.

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Coleman is charged with Robbery in the second degree and Petit Larceny.


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