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Stooping or Stealing? How a Late Night Street Find Landed a Brooklyn Woman in Handcuffs

NYC NOW · Jul 24, 2026 · 18:44

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A Brooklyn interior designer says she believed a stack of wet rugs left outside had been discarded. Days later, her face appeared in news reports about a grand larceny investigation, and she spent seven hours at an NYPD precinct before being released without charges. WNYC and Gothamist reporter Catalina Gonella traces how the misunderstanding escalated and where the law draws the line between stooping and stealing.



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