Crime & Safety
Contractor Tools Stolen in Home Depot Parking Lot
Thieves took drills and stone cutters from the work van of a contractor who was shopping in Home Depot on Midland Avenue.
Thieves made off with almost $1,000 in tools after breaking into a contractor's work van on Midland Avenue Tuesday, police said.
The victim, a 41-year-old Port Chester man, told officers he'd parked his 2003 Econoline near Home Depot at 4 p.m. and returned about 40 minutes later to find a broken window on the right side of his van.
Taken in the break-in was a sheet rock drill, a stone cutter and a pair of hammer drills, with a combined value of more than $900.
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The theft is similar to reported in the same parking lot, in which criminal opportunists were targeting contractors who parked near the hardware store in the hopes of scoring expensive tools and construction equipment. Past incidents often came in clusters, but police have not fielded additional reports of similar crimes as they have in the past.
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