Brooklyn, NY - Good Police Work Leads to Suspect in Borough Park Break-In Horror

Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY - Police are questioning a suspect believed to be one of the two masked burglars who broke into the Boro Park, Brooklyn home of a wealthy couple, tied them up and cleaned them out of more than $200,000 in cash and jewels.

The NYPD were trying to determine if the burglars may have known that real-estate investor Wolf Sicherman, 55, and wife Sarah kept money in a safe in the third-floor bedroom of their Borough Park home.

On Monday night the safe was stuffed with cash because Sicherman was going to purchase a building the following day.
The masked duo, clad in black jumpsuits and armed with boxcutters, entered through a rear window and cut the electricity.
"They were working with small flashlights," said a neighbor and friend of the victims.
Police sources said the burglars encountered Sicherman, owner of nearby Sicherman Management Corp., on the stairwell and ordered him to open the safe.
He was so nervous he couldn't remember the combination, so his wife opened the safe. The couple were then tied with duct tape to a chair in the living room.
Before fleeing, the robbers "thanked the wife for being so nice," said a police source.

A woman chatting with a neighbor on the sidewalk said, "I saw two hooded guys coming out of the house getting into a white car."
Her friend became suspicious and wrote down the license plate of the getaway SUV and called BP Shomrim Patrol the local neighborhood watch group.
A few minutes later, "He [Sicherman] got himself free. She [Sarah] was shaking like a fish," said the witness.

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The NYPD have arrested Joseph Fiel, 30, and he was charged with breaking into the Brooklyn home then attacking and robbing the couple who live there. Fiel has been charged with robbery and criminal possession of a weapon.
Police believe the suspects could have been tipped off by contractors who recently did work inside the home. Detectives have not ruled out the possibility the home was targeted because of its appearance.