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Surveillance camera tapes care home thief
Unknown suspect
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David Conti can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7981.
And the videotape rolled the whole time.
Pittsburgh police hope someone recognizes the man from a series of stills taken from the surveillance tape and released to the public on Wednesday.
"I think he was trying to figure out if the camera was on. He looked at it for a while, even turned it aside," city burglary Detective Michael Pilyih said. "But I think someone will recognize him."
The thief went to the Highland Park Care Center at North Highland and Stanton avenues about 6:30 p.m. on April 20 and wandered around the employees' door for several minutes, carrying a duffel bag, detectives said. After taking a long, good look at the camera pointed at the door, he slipped inside when a staff member came out for a cigarette break, police said.
Twenty minutes later, the video showed him running out the door with something in the bag. Employees discovered that money had been stolen from a vending machine just inside the door and called police.
Police ask anyone who recognizes the suspect to call the burglary squad at (412) 665-3771.
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