A man is wanted by police after two separate burglaries months apart in Red Hook, one targeting a parked truck and the other a neighborhood business, with the combined haul topping $11,000 in stolen goods. Investigators say the suspect pried open a truck's side door over the summer and later walked into a Clinton Street business this month, each time making off with a bag full of valuables.
A Summer Break-In on Coffey Street
According to News 12 Brooklyn, the first reported incident happened at 50 Coffey St. on July 27, when investigators say the suspect opened the side door of a truck and removed a backpack from inside. Police say the items packed into that backpack were worth approximately $8,850, a significant loss for whoever left the vehicle parked that day.
Months later, on Oct. 9, police say the same suspect struck again, this time entering a business at 623 Clinton St. and walking out with a bookbag. The items taken in that second incident were valued at around $2,580, according to the same report. Police are now asking anyone with information to come forward and call them, per the station's reporting.
NYPD Flags a Broader Pattern
The push to identify the suspect lines up with a wider appeal from the NYPD, which, according to Cedar News, is asking for the public's help identifying an individual wanted in connection with a pattern of burglaries in Brooklyn's 76th Precinct. That precinct covers Red Hook along with Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, parts of Gowanus, and the Columbia Street Waterfront District, according to the NYPD.
Burglary patterns targeting multiple Brooklyn locations aren't unheard of this year. Earlier in the summer, authorities said they were looking for a man suspected of burglarizing 11 businesses across six police precincts over three months, as reported by the Brooklyn Eagle. It's not established whether that case has any connection to the Red Hook incidents.
Borough-Wide Numbers Tell a Mixed Story
Broader crime data from earlier this year shows a complicated picture for Brooklyn. Burglary actually dropped 24% during the 28-day period from Jan. 5 to Feb. 1, 2026, compared with the same stretch in 2025, according to the Brooklyn Paper. But that same period saw major felonies overall rise 1.5%, with grand larceny and grand larceny auto also climbing, and felony assaults increasing from 466 incidents in January 2025 to 516 in January 2026.
Those figures predate both the July and October Red Hook incidents and don't speak to current trends in the neighborhood specifically. Still, they underscore that even as some crime categories ease, others in the borough have moved in the opposite direction. For now, the suspect behind the two Red Hook burglaries remains unidentified, and police continue to ask residents with information to get in touch.
