Brooklyn, NY – An employee at a Borough Park bank was greeted by a shocking sight upon opening up the bank’s vault this morning: a hole in the ceiling leading out to the roof.
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Police said that approximately $280,000 in cash, as well as valuables from an unknown number of safe deposit boxes were taken during the heist at the HSBC Bank branch on 13th Avenue and 44th Street. The robbery took place sometime over the weekend and no alarms were activated during the robbery.
The theft was discovered at 8:30 AM this morning by the employee who opened the vault. Police, who are continuing their investigation, discovered an abandoned ladder on the roof of the building.
The contents of the pilfered safe deposit boxes are unknown at this time and police said that they do not know if the owners of the affected boxes have been notified.
Hard to understand how in this day and age with all the technology that we have that this can just happen without being watched or noticed. No! There is no excuse!
if the alarm was broke who is responsible for this theft?
How would they know how much money was taken if the owners werent contacted??
This bank doesn’t exactly look like Fort Knox to start with. People should think twice and three times, before using the “safe deposit” boxes of these strip mall type banks.
Had to bean inside job,
Maybe only Chase and TD in Boro Park would qualify as secure. The rest of these banks on every corner are a joke; installing a huge safe door to impress customers is a marketing tactic. Many bank burglaries in recent years have been through the roof, the weakest link. Serious banks have sensors and lasers inside ceilings and walls that would detect, heat and drilling.
They should have invested $199, in a Google Nest Cam, or the like, as a backup.
Sounds like an inside job too.
#5 bean means a bundel
Banks with public deposit vaults should have 24 hour armed guards on premise. Not a big deal for any big bank.