NYPD: Men posed as utility workers, robbed Brooklyn woman
Con Edison workers. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer
Police say two men posing as utility workers robbed a woman of $2,500 after making their way into her home.
The New York Police Department says the men knocked on the door of the home near Oriental Boulevard and Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn on Thursday afternoon.
They told the 88-year-old woman who lived there that they needed to check a utility issue inside the home.
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