Crime & Safety

WATCH: Man Steals $5.5K Worth Of Wigs, Kitchen Faucet From Eastern Parkway Home

And he did it with his dog in tow.

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Authorities are looking for a man who they say stole $5,500 worth of wigs along with a kitchen faucet from a home in Crown Heights.

The NYPD released the video below, which shows the man — and his dog — walking up to the home on two separate occasions and snagging the items off of the victims front steps.

The wigs were taken on Friday, April 28, and the faucet on Sunday, May 7, police said. The residence is on the 700 block of Eastern Parkway.

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Here's how police are asking people to report tips:

Anyone with information in regards to these incidents is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.

You can watch video of what police called "grand larcenies" below:

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