$65,000 worth of stolen jewelry traced to Wyckoff babysitter

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Wyckoff family has recovered some of $65,000 worth of jewelry stolen from their home and hocked in Hawthorne by a 20-year-old relative who’d been babysitting for them, Wyckoff Police Chief Benjamin Fox said.

Jerry DeMarco

03/01/2012 11:44 p.m.

Allison M. Begyn (MUGSHOT: Wyckoff PD)

Sgt. Daniel Kellogg, working with Lt. David Murphy and Detective Sgt. Michael Musto, quickly determined the booty was pawned at a Hawthorne jewelry store.

They found Allison M. Begyn at a friend’s home in Paterson and arrested her.

Begyn, of Arlington Avenue in Hawthorne, was being held on $20,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with theft.

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