SCPD Investigating Attempted Burglary on 52nd Street

Suffolk Police are investigating an attempted burglary that occurred in North Lindenhurst on the Fourth of July holiday.

According to Captain Kevin Degnan of the SCPD's First Precinct, the owners of a house on 52nd Street received a call from their alarm company on Wednesday afternoon when two suspects attempted to gain access while the owners weren't home.

"The neighbors reported seeing two black males fleeing from the home, and they called the police," Degnan told Lindenhurst Patch on Thursday.

"When the officers arrived on scene, they noticed they'd tried to cut the wires to the alarm system. The cover to the electric box was removed, and the cover to the air conditioner was also removed, and it appeared they tried to get in through there. It appeared they fled when the alarm went off after removing the air conditioner cover," he explained.

An eyewitness and neighbor posted the incident on the Lindenhurst Patch Facebook page, and later told Patch she and her family were in their yard when they heard the alarm go off in the house behind theirs.

"I thought it was a car alarm and really didn't think much about it," Nancy Fiano wrote in an e-mail on Thursday describing the incident. "About an hour later my neighbor called me to say the house was broken into, and one of the adjoining neighbors saw two black males with hooded sweatshirts leaving the home."

She also expressed worry over the fact there's a sump across the street from that neighbor's side yard. She said many times she and her neighbors "see the residue of drug dealings, envelopes, needles, etc." littering the grass in front of the sump fence.

"The grass on the side of the home which was broken into is littered with bottles, butts and condoms, as there's a high fence and some tree cover," wrote Fiano, a life-long resident of North Lindenhurst and of that neighborhood.

Captain Degnan added that detectives also responded to the scene yesterday afternoon and dusted for prints, but indicated there are no other leads at this time.

The attempted burglary is under investigation, he noted.

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