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Wyckoff Police Sgt. Kevin Kasak canvassed the neighborhood after a Thomas Place woman returned home Tuesday morning to find her front door ajar and jewelry, cash and an iPad missing, Chief Benjamin Fox said this morning.
A neighbor told Kasak that a Hispanic female earlier that day came to his home, Fox said.
When he opened the door, the resident said, the woman “had a story about picking up her child and then claimed that she had the wrong address,” he said.
She then drove off in an older model white Toyota.
“This is a classic ploy by burglars: Knock on the door to determine if someone is home, and if someone answers, create a false story about why they are there,” Fox said.
Wyckoff police issued an alert to surrounding agencies, and yesterday Hawthorne police got a report of a similar incident, for which they arrested 31-year-old Evelise Gonzalez, the chief said.
Wyckoff police charged Gonzalez with burglary and theft. They also recovered jewelry stoken during the break-in in her car, Fox said. Hawthorne authorities charged her with attempted burglary.
Gonzalez was being held on $55,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail.
MUGSHOT: Courtesy WYCKOFF PD
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