When Latonia Stewart was arrested leaving the home of a deceased person, police found jewelry in plain sight and an obituary saved on her phone.
A Bronx woman is accused of burglarizing more than a dozen homes while the occupants were attending funerals
According to police, Stewart would scan recent newspapers' obituary sections and target the homes of grieving families. When the mourners would return home, they'd discover jewelry and other valuable property gone, said District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino Jr. . A mallet was found under the front seat of Stewart's car when she was arrested in May 2018, leaving the home of a deceased person.She has been linked to six break-ins in Westchester County—in Rye Brook, Cortlandt, Scarsdale, Irvington, Ossining and Tarrytown, and Carmel in Putnam County. She also faces charges for similar burglaries in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The thieves walked away with a makeshift piggy bank the Alvarados had been stuffing with coins and dollar bills for quite some time.
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