Neighbors relieved after Cleveland police arrest alleged serial thief

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – On Wednesday Cleveland police arrested a person that neighbors are calling a serial thief. 53-year-old Jeffrey Burgess is in custody and charged with breaking and getting into.

Neighbors advised 19 Information he had been focusing on houses and yards within the Edgewater Cudell neighborhood since June, stealing from dozens of individuals and in some circumstances greater than as soon as.

19 Information obtained surveillance movies and footage from a number of theft victims. Neighbors advised us after dozens of those crimes they have been pissed off police hadn’t made any progress, so that they got here collectively themselves to determine the thriller serial thief and shortly recognized him. They stated they introduced this data to the police greater than a month in the past.

“The folks within the neighborhood have been actually banding collectively, gathering details about him,” stated neighbor Eric Williams. “Now we have a variety of data that we will current to legislation enforcement, we now have report numbers. We’re fairly certain we all know who the man is. Now we have his date of delivery. We discovered articles about his earlier crimes on-line and have been simply drained. We don’t wanna do that anymore. It’s changing into like a part-time job.”

Neighbors stated they have been relieved and felt a way of closure as soon as they realized of Burgess’ arrest.

Burgess is being held on a $25,000 bond. His document exhibits he’s pled responsible to assault, breaking and getting into, and aggravated theft earlier than. He’s presently nonetheless in jail.

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