After three weeks of managing to evade capture, a serial burglar has finally been apprehended.
Highly credible sources tell YWN that Michael Fields was taken into custody just before 4:00PM in Brooklyn.
Police had been working around the clock for the past few weeks trying to apprehend him, as he continued burglarizing homes. Flatbush Shomrim had dozens of volunteers patrolling the streets every night, and the NYPD worked overtime. The Commanding Officer of the NYPD’s 70 Precinct Inspector James Palumbo, as well as the Commanding Officer of the NYPD’s 63 Precinct, Captain Tito Romero, had extra officers and detectives assigned to the early morning hours, when Fields was conducting his burglaries.
The Flatbush community is unaware, but the past several days there have been an incredible amount of police offices flooding the streets during the night and early morning. Many officers walked the streets on foot patrol, going up driveways and searching yards in the cover of darkness hoping to locate the suspect. Thankfully, intelligence and tips received by Detectives paid off, and he was taken into custody.
He was arrested in the confines of the 75 Precinct after a brief foot pursuit. He was transported to a local hospital after reportedly suffering a seizure.
Fields is a known burglar, who was arrested by officers from the 70 Precinct before the summer. He was charged with many burglaries, but thanks to the rotating door of the justice system in NYC, this crack-using serial burglar goes through the system like a rotating door. He is currently on parole – for burglary.
Police officials are hopeful that with lots of new evidence and video camera footage, Michael Fields will not be released from prison any time soon.
(Charles Gross – YWN)
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6 Responses
No pity. That is the problem with New Yorkers. Here you have a poor man, no doubt abused as a child, weaned onto hard drugs by his mother, thrown out on the street by one of her boy friends. He has no community, no family, no support system and now just because he is a person of color, forced to enter peoples houses in search of food and saleable items to feed his drug habit, YWN says it hopes will not be released from prison any time soon. Shame on you. Where is your heart? Surely someone in the community can give him a place to stay and give him some honest work.
Theo i couldn’t disagree with you more. America is a country of accountability if he wanted to get help for his drug problem he could have with tax payers footing the bill.
Theo what is your address? You sound like a great candidate to host & adopt a burglar.
Theo: No reading comprehension; that is the problem! You blame YWN for lacking heart, when the article clearly states it was Police officials who made the “heartless” comment.
Theo, you willing to “foster” Mr. fields? Want to put him up in your spare bedroom and give him a job at your office?
Well theo, at taxpayer expense he will enjoy the community, support system and possibly employment at the prison system.