JERSEY CITY – A 71-year-old Jersey City woman’s home was burglarized by a man who posed as a Public Service Electric & Gas employee before taking more than $5,000 yesterday.
The Hopkins Avenue woman told police the man rang her bell just after 5 p.m. and told her he was with PSE&G and he needed to get into her home because other residents were having problems with their electric service. She let him in to check her home, a police report says.
Once inside, the man asked her to go to her bathroom, check the lights, flush the toilet and run the faucet. After a few minutes she called for the man, but got no response. She checked the apartment and looked outside but he was gone, the report says.
The woman then checked her apartment and found a dresser drawer in her bedroom was open and an envelope in the drawer containing $400 was missing. In her living room she found envelopes containing $4,980 of rent income from the past four months were gone as well, the report says.
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