Police: Thief steals $60 from Bronx church

Police say a thief stole $60 and a box of garbage bags from a church in Crotona Park East this week. The pastor at All Souls Evangelical Church says a thief stole about $2,000 earlier this year, prompting

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Nov 18, 2015, 7:42 AM

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Updated 3,244 days ago

Police say a thief stole $60 and a box of garbage bags from a church in Crotona Park East this week.

The pastor at All Souls Evangelical Church says a thief stole about $2,000 earlier this year, prompting officials to install security cameras and a bolt on the rectory's door.

Those cameras recorded 30 minutes of the new thief's activities inside the church, according to investigators.

The cameras caught the suspect breaking in through a downstairs window, snooping through the building for about 15 minutes, and then using a crowbar to try and break into the rectory.

When the slender thief went to leave through a narrow window, the cameras show that he couldn't fit all of his would-be loot through the opening.

Police say they are looking into whether the two burglaries are connected.