You will have heard about teams of males seen climbing out of sewers in several components of Brooklyn late final week.
The NYPD shared up to date data on the case Monday, saying an Emergency Service Unit group, together with environmental officers, had investigated the sewer system and decided there is no such thing as a risk to the general public, criminally or water-wise.
Why the boys had been within the sewers within the first place stays a matter of investigation.
A senior legislation enforcement official says investigators’ main principle is that the group is scouring for valuables that make their means into the sewage system.
In accordance with police, the primary report got here in late Thursday night time, round 11 p.m. Somebody known as authorities to report seeing a gaggle of individuals take away a manhole cowl close to McDonald Avenue and Colin Place and drop in.
A few of these people had been seen leaving the sewer system about three hours later, the NYPD says.
Within the midst of that, a name got here in round 1 a.m. Friday relating to individuals uncovering and coming into a manhole 10 miles away, close to Heyward Road and Bedford Avenue.
The group crawled out greater than two-and-a-half hours later, obtained right into a car and sped off, police say.
No arrests or accidents had been reported in both occasion.
The official says there have been comparable incidents over the previous one or two years that the NYPD has investigated. These probes discovered that the trespassers had been in search of valuables. An individual was arrested in a type of incidents, the official says.
The NYPD’s Intelligence Division’s investigation into the newest breaches is ongoing.
