Cops: Burglary suspect caught on video
He cut his wrist breaking into a home in Hicksville, police said, then used a credit card he stole from inside the home to buy bandages at a nearby Target store.
A surveillance video at the Target store not long after the June 21 burglary showed Kaisem Watkins, 23, of Harrison Street in Elmont, a towel wrapped around his bleeding wrist, buying the bandages with the credit card he had just stolen, Nassau County police said.
And when Watkins re-entered the store Sunday evening the Target Loss Prevention team called the cops and Second Precinct officers arrested Watkins -- who, it turned out, had also burglarized a home in Elmont in May, according to police.
Police said Watkins left fingerprints at the scene of that burglary, prints matched to him following the arrest. He has been charged in connection with both crimes.
The June burglary in Hicksville occurred at a house on Dorothy Street and was discovered when the owner returned home to find a bedroom window broken, a bloody paper towel on the floor and a credit card missing, police said. The owner called the credit card company to report the stolen card, only to be informed the card had just been used at the Target store at the Broadway Mall, police said.
Detectives went to the store and found surveillance footage showing Watkins using the card to buy the bandages, police said. When Watkins re-entered the store Sunday at 5:05 p.m. he was arrested by police, who then linked him to a burglary on May 1 on Harrison Street in Elmont in which the home was ransacked and jewelry was taken, police said. The burglar entered the house by breaking a rear window, police said. Police said fingerprints lifted from that window by Crime Scene Unit detectives matched those belonging to Watkins.
Watkins is charged with two counts of second-degree burglary, police said. He is scheduled for arraignment Monday in First District Court in Hempstead.
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